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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (42419)4/17/2000 4:28:00 PM
From: Tony Viola  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74651
 
Jacob, hate to use the word promiscuous, but Intel will run most anything on their chips nowadays:

The rollout of these latest 4-way servers came with the surprise announcement that Dell will make the Solaris operating system available as a custom option on the PowerEdge server line beginning with the current 32-bit Intel architecture and continuing on through the introduction of Intel's 64-bit Itanium processor later this year.

infoworld.com

Microsoft, in the meantime, is beginning to look like she may have to bring her father to next year's prom. So easy to pile on when things go bad.

Edit: that promiscuous word is catching on!




To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (42419)4/17/2000 6:16:00 PM
From: SunSpot  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74651
 
And Intels new flagship, the Itanium, will run Linux apps extremely much better than Windows apps, whereas AMD's new 64-bit processor is more Windows-oriented, since it can also run existing 32-bit programs at a reasonable speed. Linux apps are already 64-bit on the Alpha platform (Windows NT apps were 32-bit on the Alpha platform).