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Linus: Praying for Hammer to Win

Posted by chrisd on from the thems-fighting-words dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The boys at Intel can't be happy with the latest opposition to the IA-64 instruction set. According to this Inquirer scoop, Linus himself has weighed in, and it appears he's putting his eggs in the x86-64 basket. In the original usenet post, he goes so far as to say that 'We're ... praying that AMD's x86-64 succeeds in the market, forcing Intel to make Yamhill their standard platform.'"

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  1. Overkill? by Blkdeath · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What is this world, and more importantly, our own community coming to? Linus makes an offhand remark and it's jumped all over like divine words from a deity? Don't get me wrong, Linus is a great man who's done great things, but really; this much fuss over a sentence posted to Usenet? It's pretty dissapointing when kernel developers have to practise self-censorship to avoid a media flurry.

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