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To: SteveC who wrote (50258)	7/9/2002 4:13:06 AM
From: QwikSand	Respond to of 64865

It does raise some intriguing hypotheticals. If MSFT didn't go out of its way to stop Windows XP and successors from working on Hammer in 32-bit mode ("XP's not done until Hammer won't run" kind of thing, and with the WDOJ in charge you never know), then you could in theory have all these WinHammer desktops out there that would not only run Win32 better than current x86 CPU's, but would be just sitting there waiting for a 64-bit Linux to catch up: i.e., improve Star Office, improve their desktop to the level of competitive useability which they're not really that far from now, and score a required coup like getting Adobe to port its major apps to Linux x86-64. It could be interesting. Could even make MSFT nervous, as you say. I suppose anything's possible. Nah.<gg> --QS