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   From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   Stefan Monnier  writes:   
   >> 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?   
   >   
   >Same here (tho I was on team Debian)   
      
   I would have liked to install 64-bit Debian (IIRC I initially ran   
   32-bit Debian on the Athlon 64), but they were not ready at the time,   
   and still busily working on their multi-arch (IIRC) plans, so   
   eventually I decided to go with Fedora Core 1, which just implemented   
   /lib and /lib64 and was there first.   
      
   For some reason I switched to Gentoo relatively soon after   
   (/etc/hostname from 2005-02-20, and IIRC Debian still had not finished   
   hammering out multi-arch at that time), before finally settling in   
   Debian-land several years later.   
      
   - anton   
   --   
   'Anyone trying for "industrial quality" ISA should avoid undefined behavior.'   
     Mitch Alsup,    
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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