[wellylug] windozes 64bit woes:

Andrew zrx1100 at paradise.net.nz
Wed Dec 10 22:47:40 NZDT 2003


On Wednesday, December 10, 2003, at 09:58  pm, Sam wrote:

> Also, the 64bit CPUs are, at this stage at least, more suited to server
> applications.  The price alone - $682.44 including GST for a 1.8ghz
> Opteron, as opposed to $205 for a 1.8ghz Athlon XP 2500+ - can attest 
> to
> this.

<smartass comment>
Unless you look 'outside the square' at Apple's FreeBSD based 64bit OS 
on the 64bit G5 PowerPC CPU with motherboard architecture to suit... 
It's designed as a desktop machine :)
</smartass comment>

Their server is 32bit based. :(

Andrew
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