Replies to post #4889 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[chipguy]

Have you ever heard of copyright and fair use?

[edgarcayce]

gollem-thanx for your post, I have been hearing this from my IT,MCIS and Network people at the University of Washington
where they have been waiting for seamless 32 to 64 bit for sometime now without the cost as we know it. Universities and
higher education is hurting for money badly right now but the tech groups are still looking for newer hardware that gets them some faster computing power to run on 32/64 Unix and Linux. Opteron is the word here.
later...
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[wbmw]

Gollum, Re: The point was made by AMD that IBM was able to port DB2 from 32 bit to 64 x86 in two days.

Sure, by leveraging most of the work that Intel already put into the DB2 port. Once Intel helped IBM to rewrite the code to be 64-bit friendly, of course a port to another 64-bit architecture was easy. Let's see how many applications AMD is able to port without Intel's help.