On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 09:46:41PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 21:04, Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> wrote: > > > You're not suggesting that amd64 is going to > > > run aground like ia64 did....? > > > > Why not? With the exception of i386 and sparc, pretty much everything > > else has. Processors don't win or lose based on anything, but, uhh.... > > > > ...sheer luck? I can't think of anything else. > > It's marketing. AMD64 has a significant advantage in that it can run i386 > programs at full speed. That didn't help cyrix. Also, our port doesn't really. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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