Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 May 2004 22:19:33 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: 4g/4g for 2.6.6 |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > Oh, well. I don't expect _everybody_ to switch to x86-64 immediately, but > I hope we can hold out long enough without 4g that it does work out this > time.
I think the switchover will happen fairly rapidly, since it is positioned "the upgrade you get next time you buy a new computer", similar to the current PATA->SATA switchover.
Since these CPUs run in 32-bit mode just fine, I bet you wind up with people running Intel or AMD 64-bit CPUs long they abandon their 32-bit OS. I recall people often purchasing gigabit ethernet cards long before they had a gigabit switch, simply because it was the volume technology that was being at the time. I think the same thing is going to happen here, with AMD64 and EM64T.
AMD got a lot of things right with this one...
Jeff
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