AI
Monday, September 01, 2003 3:47:13 PM
aixman
Regardless, very few companies will decide to maintain a separate AMD64 port if there is no need for larger address space.
If the programmers would decide what to do and what not in the future, that is.
In my vision there is a lot of "FUTUREPROOF! 64-bit-enabled" stickers on softwarepackages next year already. Maybe some of it can benefit from larger adress space, but the majority of it will not. No problem; as long as the application works, nobody cares. What you sell with the product then is the awareness of buyers/users to have made a decision for the future. Which is what AMD sells as well with AMD-64 (Where it is less deceptive, assuming there will be a need for 64-bit before the System sold this year will be obsolete) However, this awareness is valuable. Why noch charge for it..
Maybe the biggest thing with AMD-64 is that there is an opportunity to occupy the "64-bit" thing in the public recognition, which is valuable similar to the Pentium-brand.
K.
Regardless, very few companies will decide to maintain a separate AMD64 port if there is no need for larger address space.
If the programmers would decide what to do and what not in the future, that is.
In my vision there is a lot of "FUTUREPROOF! 64-bit-enabled" stickers on softwarepackages next year already. Maybe some of it can benefit from larger adress space, but the majority of it will not. No problem; as long as the application works, nobody cares. What you sell with the product then is the awareness of buyers/users to have made a decision for the future. Which is what AMD sells as well with AMD-64 (Where it is less deceptive, assuming there will be a need for 64-bit before the System sold this year will be obsolete) However, this awareness is valuable. Why noch charge for it..
Maybe the biggest thing with AMD-64 is that there is an opportunity to occupy the "64-bit" thing in the public recognition, which is valuable similar to the Pentium-brand.
K.
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