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Re: AMD vs. Intel

From Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com>
Newsgroups alt.comp.freeware, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.hacker, alt.privacy.anon-server, comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: AMD vs. Intel
Date 2016-01-26 02:05 +0100
Organization albasani.net
Message-ID <20160126020549.6723753b@maxa-pc> (permalink)
References (19 earlier) <n7vk8i$mun$1@dont-email.me> <5b8d9ebf10f4b9a34d3ad2db18d21a41@hoi-polloi.org> <n82omj$tc9$1@dont-email.me> <slrnnacb7q.nhu.jedi@nomad.mishnet> <04ebffb39131510818b8dd766c255932@hoi-polloi.org>

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On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 01:58:33 +0100
Anonymous <anonymous@hoi-polloi.org> wrote:

> In article <slrnnacb7q.nhu.jedi@nomad.mishnet>
> JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> wrote:
> >
> > On 2016-01-24, Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> wrote:  
> > > Anonymous wrote:
> > >  
> > >> In article <n7vk8i$mun$1@dont-email.me>
> > >> Peter =?UTF-8?B?S8O2aGxtYW5u?= <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de>
> > >> wrote:  
> > >>>
> > >>> Anonymous wrote:
> > >>>  
> > >>> > In article <n7uak3$13v$1@dont-email.me>
> > >>> > Peter =?UTF-8?B?S8O2aGxtYW5u?= <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de>
> > >>> > wrote:  
> > >>> >>
> > >>> >> GreyCloud wrote:
> > >>> >>  
> > >>> >> > On 01/21/16 23:15, Anonymous wrote:  
> > >>> >> >> In article<n7s8b2$lrs$1@dont-email.me>
> > >>> >> >> GreyCloud<mist@cumulus.com>  wrote:  
> > >>> >> >>>
> > >>> >> >>> On 01/21/16 15:30, Slimer wrote:  
> > >>> >> >>>> On 2016-01-21 3:18 PM, Melzzzzz wrote:  
> > >>> >> >>>>> On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 14:51:14 -0500
> > >>> >> >>>>> Slimer<.m@nsn.s>   wrote:
> > >>> >> >>>>>  
> > >>> >> >>>>>> However, we're ignoring another possibility: if
> > >>> >> >>>>>> x86-64 becomes too expensive to buy into, PowerPC
> > >>> >> >>>>>> platforms might return to prominence and computers
> > >>> >> >>>>>> such as the AmigaOne might actually be noticed by the
> > >>> >> >>>>>> marketplace.  
> > >>> >> >>>>>
> > >>> >> >>>>> ARM is big contender not PowerPC...  
> > >>> >> >>>>
> > >>> >> >>>> Dude, it doesn't matter. Just because ARM is doing well
> > >>> >> >>>> right now doesn't mean that PowerPC ceased to exist.
> > >>> >> >>>>  
> > >>> >> >>> The PowerPC series is at G7 level now and IBM uses them
> > >>> >> >>> soley for servers.  
> > >>> >> >>
> > >>> >> >> Ran NT4 on PPC for a bit, a long time ago.  Ran Windows
> > >>> >> >> 2000 Server RC2 on Alpha, then Compaq and MS shelved it.
> > >>> >> >>  
> > >>> >> > That's the part I could never figure out why they shelved
> > >>> >> > it.  
> > >>> >>
> > >>> >> Because they all were 32bits only, even on 64bit chips.
> > >>> >> And MS was way too incompetent to change that. They even
> > >>> >> needed several years to get 64bits on Intel/AMD CPUs after
> > >>> >> linux ran already full bore from the start. I am quite
> > >>> >> certain that the freely available source of linux helped MS
> > >>> >> a lot to get it to run 64 bits in windows, although even now
> > >>> >> it is quite shitty compared to linux  
> > >>> >
> > >>> > Why do you neckbeard geek linux tweakers have to lie like
> > >>> > that? Is it a Bill Clinton tiny penis thing?
> > >>> >
> > >>> > Linux was originally i386 only, 32 bits.  Intel was the holdup
> > >>> > on 64 bit OS implementations for MS.  That is why MS went with
> > >>> > "x64 AMD" builds because of flawed Intel chips.  
> > >>>
> > >>> Idiot.
> > >>> Linux ran on AMD64 chips month before the first CPU left the
> > >>> fab.  
> > >>
> > >> Really?  How did it do that?  Since there were no capable CPUs
> > >> yet?  
> > >
> > > Easy. I already said that AMD worked with Suse.
> > > Suse used a hardware emulator provided by AMD. They wrote the
> > > software and tested it, and reported back bugs they found.  
> >
> >    None of this is terribly shocking to anyone with a computer
> > science background.  
> 
> He still lied, and that's the crux of it.
> 
> "Oringinally SUSE provided one product (Simply known as S.u.S.e 
> Linux), which was released about three times a year and was 
> available for the x86 platform only."
> 
> None of this is terribly shocking to someone who is literate 
> first.
> 

Supporting X86-64 is kernel thing, not distro thing... Perhaps SUSE was
first distribution to provide x86-64 platform...

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