On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 07:18:45AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > The most likely reason someone would pick the AMD64 architecture over > the PowerPC architecture is that AMD64 can natively run I386 binaries.
Oh, really? Let's see - ~5 months ago I'd put together an amd64 box (athlon64/3400, 512Mb, SATA disk, on-board gigabit ethernet, decent case). That was _well_ below $1000. Equivalent G5 box would cost what, again? I can't find anything below ~$2K. And that's today, when the same amd64 box would be considerably cheaper. It runs pure64 from alioth + sarge/i386 for x86 work. Works fine. Mind explaining why I would want to spend those $2K? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]