CNET: amd64

[Michael W. Lucas]

Yes, of course.  I was addressing the press release part, which is
what I do.  :-)

On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 09:15:12AM -0400, Dan Pelleg wrote:
> 
> Agreed. However that article talks about release in 2004 [beta in Q1, and a
> full release "later"]. It's fine for the foundation to refrain from
> announcing vaporware. But I still maintain that this article's author needs
> to be made aware of his mistake in enumerating all the AMD64 vaporware :)
> 
> 
> Michael W. Lucas writes:
>  > AMD64 is still a Tier 2 platform.
>  > 
>  > We're *almost* there, but Peter has some more work to do.
>  > 
>  > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 08:50:19AM -0400, Dan Pelleg wrote:
>  > > 
>  > > The following quote is from http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-5089274.html 
>  > > (currently linked from the front page):
>  > > 
>  > > "Sun Microsystems' Solaris will become the third operating system to take
>  > > advantage of Advanced Micro Devices' 64-bit Opteron processor."
>  > > 
>  > > With the other two being Linux and Microsoft Windows. Besides mailing the
>  > > author and pointing out his error, does it make sense for someone (the
>  > > FreeBSD Foundation?) to issue a press release regarding Opteron support?
> 

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