On mar, 2004-07-13 at 17:20 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > recognizing that the AMD64-based architectures are likely to become the > > most widespread on personal computers and workstations in a near future, > > This is just a speculation. Probably you make this speculation based on > good facts, but I cannot, and probably many others. I would not like to > vote on a speculation. > > Why not write facts here - especially since there are also good facts in > favor of your proposal?
Well, AMD have been selling Athlon 64's as their high-end i386 compatible CPU's for a few months, even on notebooks and they intend to replace Athlon's XP/MP progressively. As Intel also started to design ia32e/amd64 cpu's, we can expect them to become more widespread than powerpc, and probably more widespread than i386 in a few years. Of course, this is just speculation. In fact, I believe the existing amd64 user base (which is already comparable to that of powerpc) justifies that GR by itself. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
