Microsoft Commits to Using Opteron

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Microsoft Commits to Using Opteron

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday April 9, 2003 @08:21AM from the catching-up-to-linux dept.

the_1000th_Monkey writes "According these articles at The Inquirer, Infoworld, and The Register Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 will support AMD's 64-bit Opteron processor. Beta releases can be expected in the middle of this year. Here is MS's official press release."

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Impostor! by sql*kitten · 2003-04-09 08:23 · Score: 5, Funny

Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 will support AMD's 64-bit Opteron processor. Beta releases can be expected in the middle of this year.

A slashdot story where Microsoft are the good guys! What have you done with the real Timothy?! Taco! Help, Taco!!
Coming soon... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-09 08:25 · Score: 5, Funny

64-bit Blue Screen of Death!
Re:about time by L.+VeGas · 2003-04-09 08:27 · Score: 4, Funny

About time that we hear this news from MS. Now, what about linux?

nah, I don't think MS is going to support Linux.

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Re:Whooo....neat! by mahdi13 · 2003-04-09 08:43 · Score: 2, Funny

Where exactly is this rock that you've been hiding under?

Somewhere between the 4th and 5th planets in your solar system...lots of good rocks to hide under there!
Thanks for the tip though, I haven't followed Intel very closely in a while and the news with them lately is just when another employee of theirs goes to jail on terrorist charges =)

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Re:Not true at all. They just announced ... by t0qer · 2003-04-09 09:00 · Score: 2, Funny

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Nope, still as maniacal as ever.
Re:64-bit? Why? by biz0r · 2003-04-09 09:05 · Score: 2, Funny

me: dud3 1 g0t 64 b1t CpU!@#!
friend: 0wnz0r!

But really, its all said above. Main thing being the memory access problems which current 32bit systems can have.

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Well well.. by ThunderRiver · 2003-04-09 10:04 · Score: 2, Funny

Another chance for leaking Windows code...
Re:Question by Tiro · 2003-04-09 10:35 · Score: 3, Funny

Chill out . . . a little l337 here and there doesn't kill anyone. He only did it twice.
Yay! by olePigeon+(Wik) · 2003-04-09 11:11 · Score: 2, Funny

64-bit Solitare!
Re:64-bit? Why? by Citizen+of+Earth · 2003-04-09 11:14 · Score: 4, Funny

2^32 times the addressing space of 32 bit, so goodbye 4 gig limit.

16 exabytes ought to be enough for anybody.
A new breed of error messages.. by ewhenn · 2003-04-09 12:40 · Score: 2, Funny

..now with 16 character addresses!

BRAIN has performed an illegal operation in AMD64 at 0123456789ABCDEF. BRAIN will now terminate.