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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (69080)	1/27/2002 9:25:23 AM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Pravin: Hammer servers running Linux will be a big hit in Europe. MS will be forced to support the chip. The more I think about this issue, the more worried I become. AMD could quite easily run into the same kind of issues as Intel is facing with regards to HyperThreading. Microsoft's business model relies on an extremely segmented market, with users requiring more "features" (such as more memory or multiple processors) having to pay extra. Memory limits in current windows versions are already artificially set by Microsoft, not according to the hardware capabilities, but according to MS' segmentation strategy. Why would Microsoft support the full amount of memory allowed by the 40/48 bits of address space with Hammer? Why would Microsoft support multiple processors (which is what is needed for HyperThreading to work)? [in consumer versions of their OS] Let's say MS chose to do both. Why would anyone buy the server and advanced server versions anymore? Sure, there are some features still missing from the consumer version (such as some remote maintenance enhancements), but the vast majority of these could be achieved by simply going with non-MS products at very little extra cost (and you would only buy the features you actually needed). The main reasons for going with the more expensive windows versions, multiprocessor support and high memory support, would now be fully part of the consumer version. -fyo