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To: Petz who wrote (72501)	2/26/2002 4:08:52 PM
From: andreas_wonisch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Petz, Re: I don't think the P4 silicon at 1.5 GHz two years ago booted Windows, it just ran a MHz counter program, IIRC. Well, but in order to run the program it had to boot some sort of OS first, don't you think? ;-) Okay, maybe they had the MHz counter in a ROM but that's sort of a stretch IMO. Since P4 became available nine months later the status was probably comparable with today's status of Hammer, maybe even better (I suspect it wasn't the first stepping they used). Andreas

To: Petz who wrote (72501)	2/26/2002 11:43:57 PM
From: milo_morai	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

<font color=green>In a private suite, AMD executives demonstrated a single Clawhammer processor running both a scripted application* under Windows XP as well as a 64-bit version of SuSE Linux.* .... AMD executives declined to disclose the clock speed of the chip, although the prototype motherboard, code-named "Solo", also used the 8151 AGP 8X graphics tunnel as well as the 8111 HyperTransport I/O hub interface. The board also included four PCI slots, the AGP connector, and two DIMM slots, one populated... ... Weber declined to comment on whether Microsoft Corp. had committed to formally supporting the Hammer architecture, as the software firm has done with the Itanium architecture. "Here's the thing," Weber replied. "I suspect that every user in the Linux community's going to want to use it from day one. If they can get a desktop PC running 64-bit Linux they're going to want to have it." That, in turn, will force Microsoft to accelerate its own 64-bit support for Hammer, Weber said. "It's a market reality," he said. Clawhammer processors, which are designed for PCs and low-end servers, will be on sale in the fourth quarter, Weber said. Full Story extremetech.com