AMD Athlon64 Systems
leam
leam at reuel.net
Fri Oct 17 09:05:07 UTC 2003
Robert L Cochran wrote:
> I have a new question: would it be worthwhile investing in the Athlon64
> from a programming perspective? E.g. write 64 bit programs while the
> rest of the world is still living on 32 bits?
>
> Thanks everyone for answering my original question about the Athlon64. I
> was surprised at the amount of response and I see even more clearly now
> that there are a lot of folks out there like Jesse, Seth et al who are
> right in the front lines of hardware technology.
>
> Bob
Have you gotten the series of books from AMD on the CPU? There are 5 and
they may still send them to you free. Though if you really want to just
do 64 bits, go buy an old Sparc64 like an Ultra1 or Ultra2. 64bits for
much less.
ciao!
leam
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