If I Had a Hammer

adpowers writes: "Anandtech is running an article about their preview of AMD's Hammer. They had one machine running 32-bit Windows and the other running 64-bit Linux. The Linux machine had a 32 bit program and an identical program that was compiled for 64-bit processor support. Both processors were less than 30 days old and running without any crashes, but they weren't at full speed." We did one Hammer story a day or two ago, but there have been several more posted since then (wild guess: the NDA expired). Tom's Hardware has a story, so does Gamespot.

Re:Two transition periods?

[Ed Avis]

64 bits should be enough for anyone.

No really, I mean it.

If I Had a Hammer...

[boaworm]

... I would immediately spend hours porting Emacs to 64bit architecture. That would make my LaTeX typing sooo much more efficient ;-)

"486DX-still-going-strong dept"

[rjamestaylor]

486DX-still-going-strong dept

That's what I was hoping when I bought an old IBM Thinkpad off eBay a while back. Unfortunately, the truth has been painful - to even install a relatively recent Linux distribution I need more memory (for one) than the max potential for the unit...I think I'll stay with good ol' Pentium Pro 200's and up...

someone has to say it

[discogravy]

"When the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems start to look like nails."

Re:Two transition periods?

[Sunthalazar]

Actually I think I would prefer the permissions to be 777, or at least 770 if I was lucky enough to be a part of the earth group. Since I really don't think I'm the user. :)

Informative article

[Animats]

What we know now:

• The 64-bit chip has more pins than the 32-bit chips.
• It's a heavy chip.
• The thingey that holds the heat sink on works better than the one on the old chips.
• It goes really fast.

When the team that ported Linux has something to say, let us know. It's good that AMD is showing sample parts that work.

I expect that at least one of the big search engines will convert over to these things soon. They need multi-gigabyte address space in the servers.

Re:Two transition periods?

[_ph1ux_]

"all the pr0n, all the MP3s, all the source code, all the PowerPoints, everything-- on one server with one big filesystem"

Isnt that what .NET is for?