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Sun May Use Opteron Chips

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday April 8, 2003 @02:55PM from the the-molten-core-is-pure-silicon dept.

Runnin_Rob writes "CNET Nets.com is reporting that Sun is likely (not definite, but likely) to start using AMD's Opteron in the near future. The article also discusses how Linux is pushing for greater acceptability of Solaris x86 because 'All of the sudden it is OK to (put) something other than Windows.'"

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windows 64 by simpl3x · 2003-04-08 15:08 · Score: 1, Flamebait

'All of the sudden it is OK to (put) something other than Windows.'

huh? when was microsoft going to port to amd's 64 bit processor? they seem to be going out of their way to dis amd. this could be the point where the paths between various flavors of unix and windows part, hardware-wise. linux et al will run on anything, and windows will run on intel. not good for windows imho. any comments on the potential for substantially better image and video processing performance under a 64 bit os (memory)?