Anyone Here running on x86-64 Hardware Yet

[Aly Dharshi]

Hello,

	Have you considered looking at Sun's AMD offerings, they have a AMD line, the 
V20z and V40z, they are quite spiffy, they are basically Newisys boxes, they 
have licensed this technology. They have another design going on around the AMD 
chips called Galaxy which is still to appear. This will be a full Sun design. 
Don't quote me on this Galaxy bitty.

	IBM has also got AMD64 offerings, HP has ditched the Itanic 2 and jumped in a 
hurry onto the AMD64 wagon. I believe that the EMT64 techology in the Intel 
chips are licensed from AMD ??? I think so. So you should be able to run Red Hat 
64 or Fedora Core 64 bit on it.

	The AMD64 chips should run your 32bit software without hassle. I think that you 
should be okay. But if it is over the next 18months I am sure that there will 
much more improvements on the AMD64 area. Sun should have their V80z out by then 
too. They are pushing the AMD64 platform quite hard.

	Cheers,

	Aly.
-- 
Aly Dharshi
aly.dharshi at telus.net

	 "A good speech is like a good dress
	  that's short enough to be interesting
	  and long enough to cover the subject"