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Re: AMD 64 with woody or sarge



On Thursday 16 December 2004 10:38, Nick Miller wrote:
> Hey all,
>
>  I am wondering what experiences, positive or negative, you all have had
> running woody or sarge with AMD's line of 754 & 939 64bit processors. I
> would really like to push my company to replace some of our lower end
> servers with systems built around these chips.

Well, I think they're great systems, and it's about time, but ...

unless you're running into the limits of 32 bits sytems (like 1GB memory max), 
there isn't a truly compelling argument to running the 64 bit system.

On the other hand, it will be faster than almost any other "pc" processor, and 
they aren't terribly expensive, so ...

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