Re:IBM in Talks to Buy Sun in Bid to Add To Web Heft
by Tamerlin on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @01:47PM
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The big sea change that AMD caused is that 64-bit processors are now a commodity. Intel COULD have done that without AMD, but I doubt that they WOULD have if AMD hadn't essentially forced their hand.
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Re:IBM in Talks to Buy Sun in Bid to Add To Web Heft
by rbanffy on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @07:14PM
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And it's so ironic that people who were not married to x86 architectures enjoyed 64-bit computing a full decade before it became mainstream (as in "you could order a box from Dell")...
And that Sun had one of the first full implementations (I think MIPS got there first).