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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
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On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 09:05:07AM +0100, Luca Massarenti wrote:
> As you can see I'me not a java expert!!!
> Which platform do you suggest to use ?
> and is amd processors  a good choice for this kind of application?

Yes AMD64 CPU+mobo is a excelent choice for this kind of application.
The question is should you run a 32-bit or 64-bit FreeBSD right now.
Since you want to run Java bits, that pretty much means 32-bit FreeBSD
right now.  Don't forget that AMD64 is the fastest 32-bit x86 processor
also.

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)