AMD64 box

David Leimbach leimy2k at mac.com
Fri Nov 7 06:05:40 PST 2003


On Nov 7, 2003, at 7:49 AM, James Bilotto wrote:

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 07:28:31AM -0600, David Leimbach wrote:
On Nov 7, 2003, at 3:44 AM, James Bilotto wrote:

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 02:01:46PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
   The alpha and Itanium non-withstanding, the AMD64 is the first
'consumer'
   64 bit machine in mass production.  I am already impressed!
if the alpha and itanium are 'consumer' processors then you mite as
well put the
mips, sparc64, and power4's in their too. and i think you are
forgeting the
ppc 970 ( G5 ), which shiped in 'mass' befor the AMD64.
Actually the Opteron beat the G5 by a long shot.  I think you are
thinking Atlhlon64.
i know the opteron shiped first, but i thought it was not generally 
available
for a long time ( mostly for OEM's )

True... it was hard to get an actual machine for a while but I guess 
since we
are AMD partners we had early access where I work :).

Dave






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