Re: AMD64 for sarge [<rant> Package: ftpmasters, Severity: serious, ...]

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 01:02:24PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 09:46:41PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> > It's marketing.  AMD64 has a significant advantage in that it can run i386 
> > programs at full speed.
> 
> That didn't help cyrix.

Nor did the way their chips overheated ...

> Also, our port doesn't really.

AMD64's advantage applies far more to Windows than to free software.
That's what gets desktop-class hardware on the streets, though.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]