Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:22:24 -0400 From: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: Dan Pelleg <daniel+bsd@pelleg.org> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CNET: amd64 Message-ID: <20031010132224.GB98310@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <16262.45280.83258.865374@gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu> References: <16262.43787.941530.439241@gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu> <20031010130431.GA98310@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <16262.45280.83258.865374@gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
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Yes, of course. I was addressing the press release part, which is what I do. :-) On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 09:15:12AM -0400, Dan Pelleg wrote: > > Agreed. However that article talks about release in 2004 [beta in Q1, and a > full release "later"]. It's fine for the foundation to refrain from > announcing vaporware. But I still maintain that this article's author needs > to be made aware of his mistake in enumerating all the AMD64 vaporware :) > > > Michael W. Lucas writes: > > AMD64 is still a Tier 2 platform. > > > > We're *almost* there, but Peter has some more work to do. > > > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 08:50:19AM -0400, Dan Pelleg wrote: > > > > > > The following quote is from http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-5089274.html > > > (currently linked from the front page): > > > > > > "Sun Microsystems' Solaris will become the third operating system to take > > > advantage of Advanced Micro Devices' 64-bit Opteron processor." > > > > > > With the other two being Linux and Microsoft Windows. Besides mailing the > > > author and pointing out his error, does it make sense for someone (the > > > FreeBSD Foundation?) to issue a press release regarding Opteron support? > -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org Today's chance of throwing it all away to start a goat farm: 41.8% http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Absolute OpenBSD: http://www.AbsoluteOpenBSD.com/
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