Replies to post #66984 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[muzohub]

Yeah, about a decade after the appearance of the first
32 bit x86 chip. Was that the point you were trying to
make? ;-)

that it's the os which makes the chip and and the one which will be partially x64 only will come out next year. when you can buy a 64 bit vista pro os on your 64 bit desktop pc, you don't think isvs will jump all over themselves to recompile their apps to 64 bit ? and the conversion is much easier than 16-bit segmented code to flat 32 bit code.

[mas]

Affordable memory capacity is now at the tipping point where 64-bit is essential for usable physical memory above 2GB which is now a typical high-end PC spec.

[I_banker]

Consumers don't care about segmented ...., they care about value for their money. Now who is going to want to buy an PC with last year's model OS when Microsoft is playing Rolling Stones songs and telling you this great new OS, with all these wonderful new features, is available for the same price.

After Windows 95 was released, how many new computers were sold with Windows 3.1? How about after XP, how many Windows ME computers were sold?

[smooth2o]

Hey, I resemble that remark and sold lots of x86 stuff on that premise...

Smooth