RE: Where is IBM?

The Opteron is a "special" CPU. It can process both x86 instructions and
64bit instructions. Windows will have support in about a year. Linux has had
support for a year already. So as far as software goes, there is plenty. For
anything open source a recompile might take care of it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Pat Barber [mailto:mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 9:21 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Where is IBM?


Hmmmmmm... I guess since they(IBM) did this almost 10 years ago 
with their entire product line(not pc's), they probably forgot 
that nobody has gotten started on the project.

(They did it MUCH earlier but we won't go into that)

Did Hector mention the little,teeny,tiny problem they were going
to have with the billions of lines of code written for 16/32 bit
machines ????? 

The last I had heard, very little of the code was written to the
32 bit compiler.

Did he mention that very little, if any of the existing code would 
ever run....

"Urbanek, Marty" wrote:
> 
> The CEO of AMD, Hector Ruiz, is on CNBC right now talking about how
> important their new 64-bit Opteron chip is because of the huge amounts of
> data in the world that need to be addressed. He said you will be able to
> order it today after their press release. Another web article talks about
> how to make the transition from 32 to 64-bit. Now where the heck is IBM to
> say they know a thing or two about this subject?
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