XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 31 Aug 2025 16:43:26 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:   
      
   > ... I don't think GNU/Linux enthusiasts were the main buyers of   
   > those Opteron and Athlon64 machines.   
      
   Their early popularity would have been in servers. And servers were   
   already becoming dominated by Linux in those days.   
      
   “Opteron” was specifically a brand name for server chips, as I recall.   
      
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