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Date:      Thu, 1 Feb 2018 14:48:24 -0700
From:      "@lbutlr" <kremels@kreme.com>
To:        Freebsd Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Response to Meltdown and Spectre
Message-ID:  <92120E50-19A7-4A44-90DF-505243D77259@kreme.com>
In-Reply-To: <5A726B60.7040606@gmail.com>
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On 31 Jan 2018, at 18:20, JD <jd1008@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think this blunder by MS-Intel Duopoly could be the poison pill that =
will kill both.

That seems highly unlikely. It will damage the role of Intel in the =
server market fora time, but the trouble is that AMD's behavior has been =
at least as bad as Intel's, if not worse, in regards to Meltdown, so =
there's not a clearly better choice even though the AMD chips have less =
issues.

And what other choices are there for server kit?

--=20
=E2=80=9CIf you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing =
that's
read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to =
themselves.=E2=80=9D=20
   =E2=80=95 Don Marquis



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