Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the coming-to-a-pc-near-you dept.
Scrooge919 writes "An article on ZDNet discusses AMD's plan for the successor to Opteron -- the K9. The biggest feature will be that it contains multiple cores. The K9 is currently slated for the second half of 2005, which would be less than 3 years after the Opteron shipped."
Operating system license pricing?
by
yerricde
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The biggest feature [of AMD's K9] will be that it contains multiple cores.
And if K9 technology ever trickles down to home users, how are they going to afford Microsoft's asking price for licenses of multiprocessor compatible versions of the Windows OS? Or will AMD contribute to Wine to get legacy (i.e. Win32) apps to run on an affordable operating system?
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The biggest feature [of AMD's K9] will be that it contains multiple cores.
And if K9 technology ever trickles down to home users, how are they going to afford Microsoft's asking price for licenses of multiprocessor compatible versions of the Windows OS? Or will AMD contribute to Wine to get legacy (i.e. Win32) apps to run on an affordable operating system?
Will I retire or break 10K?