Replies to post #24286 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[sgolds]

chipguy -

You are right. This story holds some eery parallels with
AMD's ambitions with AMD64. :-P

And just a few differences: DEC had the infrastructure of a minicomputer systems company - including processor, system, OS and application software developement, plus a worldwide 1 day response onsite customer support staff conceived for 1970s style business.

Just a little more overhead.

[kpf]

CG :-)

Nicely put it upside down. Well, if I had not lived through IBM dropping the ball on PCs a while ago (did you, too?) I could maybe follow your argument.
However, I agree: As long as Athlon64 is running 32-bit systems faster than everything else, there is no problem. Now, executing 32-bit software under WoW within a 64-bit OS is another game. Not if it is considered as just legacy-compatibility, but as long as the vast majority of code will still be 32-bit.
But that is due next year only if I read the tealeaves right.
(It's counterintuitive, but imo AMD currently (and going forward all the way through this year) is not at all disadvantaged by the lack of Windows-AMD64).

K.

[mas]

Lol, who says it's temporary :-) eom