New AMD64 owner

[Brian Tao]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, David O'Brien wrote:
> 
> It is a CPU mode issue.  If you think back to your brand new i386
> and Windows 95, the CPU was switched back into real mode when you
> ran a MS-Windows 3.1 program.  Along with MS-Windows 95 doing
> "Thunking" for system services.

    Ah, gotcha... I had not thought about the parallels between this
and the 16-to-32 transition.  Cool, things make a lot more sense when
I think about it that way.

> Yes -- assuming you are talking about dual-booting.  My FreeBSD/i386
> build machine is actually an Athlon64 machine that is run purely and
> only in 32-bit mode.  Athlon64 is the fastest 32-bit x86 machine in
> the world today.

    Damn right.  :)
-- 
Brian Tao (BT300, taob at risc.org)
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"