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To: Elmer who wrote (74022)10/5/1999 1:53:00 PM
From: Goutam  Respond to of 1572619
 
Elmer re: <Now that ought to fill you with confidence!>

I concur with AMD's opinion.

First off, porting UNIX OSes to AMD X86-64 MPU is not going to be a daunting task because of the evolutionary design of the chip.

IMHO, Linux community will be more than happy to port Linux to AMD's X86-64 microprocessor. I also come across (I think, JC's msg board) a rumor that k8's(Sledgehammer) 64bit cpu will be able to run Monterey (Monterey is a 64bit OS design by Santa Cruz,IBM, and Sequent.) Since SUN already has X86 version of Solaris, it would be a simple port to X86-64. The only doubt I have is with the WIN64 port to Sledgehammer.

Regards,
Goutama



To: Elmer who wrote (74022)10/5/1999 7:01:00 PM
From: Steve Porter  Respond to of 1572619
 
Elmer,

I shouldn't say this.. but I will... when AMD says OS support for k86-64 won't be a problem, they are serious. You don't think Microsoft is considering using AMD cpus by fluke do you?

Intel pissed off Microsoft and slit their own throats by throwing money at Linux.

Regards,

Steve


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