K8V and Windows 2003 64 trial

On 22 Feb 2004 07:34:59 GMT, sprite1001 DeleteThis @aol.com (SPRITE1001) wrote:

 >Isnt the Windows 2003 64bit based on the intel 64bit CPU's?

What Intel 64bit CPU?

 > If so it wouldnt be
 >compatable with AMD's x86-64bit

Its compatible with the only 64bit consumer PC chip on the market
which is the AMD.
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SPRITE1001 wrote:
 > Isnt the Windows 2003 64bit based on the intel 64bit CPU's? If so it wouldnt be
 > compatable with AMD's x86-64bit

There is Win XP for AMD64 and there is an entirely
separate 64 bit windows for Itanic.

Intel's recently announced AMD64 clone is supposed
to /mostly/ compatible with AMD64 chips and MicroSoft
has said they will both use the same version of Windows.
The instruction set differences for the chips lies
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Andrew wrote:
| On 22 Feb 2004 07:34:59 GMT, sprite1001.TakeThisOut@aol.com (SPRITE1001) wrote:
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|>Isnt the Windows 2003 64bit based on the intel 64bit CPU's?
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| What Intel 64bit CPU?

I think he means Itanium

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|>If so it wouldnt be
|>compatable with AMD's x86-64bit
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| Its compatible with the only 64bit consumer PC chip on the market
| which is the AMD.

For now I'm sure before the majority of applications see 64bit ports,
Intel will release something to counter the AMD, although Intel is
right, 64 bit isnt needed on the desktop quite yet for your
middle-of-the-road consumer.

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On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 08:51:25 GMT, Philip Callan <callanca.DeleteThis@shaw.ca>
wrote:

 >For now I'm sure before the majority of applications see 64bit ports,
 >Intel will release something to counter the AMD, although Intel is
 >right, 64 bit isnt needed on the desktop quite yet for your
 >middle-of-the-road consumer.

They are right about middle-of-the-road in that, but they are plain
wrong for power users. As a long time PC user, I think it fascinating
watching Intel panicking and desperately trying to play catch-up with
AMD, and resorting to downplaying the importance of 64bit because they
haven't got a part to compete with. Its even funnier that they will
have been forced to use AMD technology in their 64bit CPU's.
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