Re: Apple, Jobs, and the irony of it

[salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <unbDbeC3Y7P$EwLD@dmc12.demon.co.uk>,
Richard Kilpatrick  <richard@dmc12.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In message <20030817041138.21828.00000588@mb-m07.aol.com>, Supertimer 
><supertimer@aol.com> writes
>>Also, the claim that the G5 is the first PC
>>64-bit processor is also wrong.  That title
>>belongs to AMD's Opteron chip which was
>>released in April, several months ahead of
>>the G5.
>
>With a 64-bit bus?

A 64-bit bus is nothing new...the Pentium had a 64-bit external data bus. 
(It's still a 32-bit processor, but the wider bus increases available memory
bandwidth.)

>And in fact, can you even use it in a desktop machine yet?

I could drive down to Fry's right now, buy a board and one or two Opterons,
and rip out the dual Athlon MP board and processors I'm using.  The board
they carry is optimized more for server use than workstation/PC use,
though...dual Gigabit Ethernet, no AGP slot, and onboard ATI Rage Pro PCI
graphics, IIRC.  I suspect you could install a PCI video card for better
performance and disable the onboard graphics...bought a no-name PCI Radeon
VE a month or so ago and flashed it for my beige G3, so the cards are still
out there.

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