Hammer

["Peter Watkinson" <peterw871 netscapeonline co uk>]

OK we've seen about Itanium and how much that costs how about the AMD Hammer
what I've heard is that it should debut in 1H 02 and be clocked at about
2ghz. Will it run x86 linux out of the box or will it need it's own
distribution? Has anyone any idea what it will cost? Does anyone know what
the projected Spec or other Benchmark figures are?

Now that Alpha seems to be swimming with the fishes we'll have to consider
the alternatives and Hammer seems to me like it has the most similarity to
the Alpha  - or maybe it just appeals because it's not made by Intel!


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