Microsoft confirms Win XP64 will be OEM only

[George Macdonald]

Ummm, I thought it was the "bosses" who were waiting for a "real company"
to do 64b. ;-)

Oh you mean the "We only buy Dell here" syndrome?;-) There *were* emm,
suggestions a while back, that Dell was (furtively) building and supplying
Opteron systems under umm, pressure from some customer(s). Somebody out
there seems to know a wee bit more than the rest of them.

Just say no! ;-)

To WinXP-64? So how is your Opteron system running anyway?

Rgds, George Macdonald

"Just because they're paranoid doesn't mean you're not psychotic" - Who, me??

 

[Keith]

The iBoot-licking by "analysts" here is err, truly revolting... and then
there are customers who have been waiting for the Intel hardware. I wonder
how they explain that to their bosses.

Ummm, I thought it was the "bosses" who were waiting for a "real company"
to do 64b. ;-)

I sure hope the XP-64 bounce-buffering is capable of being turned off,
either at install or boot-time, where it's not required... on AMD64. I'm
wondering if there are any 3rd party chipset mfrs who have a license to
the P4 FSB who might do the PCI Bus Mastering DMA right?? Didn't SiS
get a license a while back?

Just say no! ;-)

 

[Keith]

To WinXP-64?
Sure.

So how is your Opteron system running anyway?

It seems to be fine. It powered up and ran first try (even mounting the
fan-sink was a piece of cake). I did have to run out and buy a DVD drive
before I could install the OS. I forgot that all my CD and CD-R/W drives
are all SCSI narrow and the only spare controller I had, without
canibalizing my old system, is a 3940UW (oops).

It took three tries to get Linux installed so the dual-head worked (it
hung during the first install) and then again after I RTFM far enough to
flip the DVD over to install 64b Linux (oops two). I've since been trying
to find my way around Linux and glomb onto software that works as I like.

"Just because they're paranoid doesn't mean you're not psychotic" - Who,
me??

Check out PAN's "User-Agent:" header tag. When I first saw it I
thought of your sig. ;-)