Re: AMD64 sales figures

From: Keith Parris (keithparris_NOSPAM_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/02/03 

Date: 2 Oct 2003 11:20:57 -0700

David Froble <davef@tsoft-inc.com> wrote in message news:<3F7C1EBE.10004@tsoft-inc.com>...
> http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11781
>
> Why Intel's Prescott will use AMD64 extensions
...
> So, why is this again? Simple, MS. Microsoft will not support a different 64 bit
> platform, and frankly I don't blame it, it costs a lot of money to do that. MS
> gave Intel the choice, support AMD's instruction set, or do without Windows. MS
> won that battle pretty handily.

Why this doesn't make sense to me is that Microsoft has already had a
64-bit version of Windows for Itanium available for quite a while, and
only recently added a 64-bit version for AMD. So the work for Itanium
appears to have been done first, and the additional work for AMD done
more recently. It sounds like the writer here missed the earlier
Itanium release of Windows entirely.

In any case, it's far too soon to predict what the market will do with
respect to Itanium and Opteron, and Microsoft is obviously covering
both potential target market segments.

> So if the above is accurate

There's a big IF there.

> The concept that after the IA-64 port was complete VMS would be much more
> generic and easily ported to other CPUs isn't as helpful as many would wish.
> I've been told, by someone who will remain nameless but is in a position to give
> an authorative opinion, that Opteron isn't any/much better than IA-32 with
> respect to a port of VMS.

Isn't any/much better in what way? Probability of a port? Technical
features needed to support VMS? What?

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