XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   Stefan Monnier  writes:   
   >The same happened to some extent with the early amd64 machines, which   
   >ended up running 32bit Windows and applications compiled for the i386   
   >ISA.  Those processors were successful mostly because they were fast at   
   >running i386 code (with the added marketing benefit of being "64bit   
   >ready"): it took 2 years for MS to release a matching OS.   
      
   Apr 2003: Opteron launch   
   Sep 2003: Athlon 64 launch   
   Oct 2003 (IIRC): I buy an Athlon 64   
   Nov 2003: Fedora Core 1 released for IA-32, X86-64, PowerPC   
      
   I installed Fedora Core 1 on my Athlon64 box in early 2004.   
      
   Why wait for MS?   
      
   - anton   
   --   
   'Anyone trying for "industrial quality" ISA should avoid undefined behavior.'   
     Mitch Alsup,    
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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