[Pc_Support] TheBS dances another "I told you so" jig -- WAS: i586 vs. i686?

Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org> thebs413 at earthlink.net
Wed Jun 22 11:45:23 EDT 2005


From: Wise Linux User <pberry2 at cfl.rr.com>
> But, seems tha the AMD 64 bit cpu combo with mainboards have dropped 
> significantly, so that it is almost time to dump all my older hardware, 
> anyway, and switch to full featured 64 bit OSes, with the huge number of 64 
> bit apps that exist in the Open Source world.  

Didn't I say this last year?
That by spring/summer the Athlon64 would be commodity?

[ TheBS dances another "I told you so" jig at the expense of at least 1
PC_Support subscriber -- although not Patrick. ]

Even the 32-bit only Sempron for Socket-754 is now their "value" platform,
and no longer Socket-A/462.





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