Re: Apple, Jobs, and the irony of it

[Eric Smith <eric-no-spam-for-me@brouhaha.com>]

> No, the 21066 "Low Cost Alpha" (LCA45) chip was the first 64-bit
> processor specifically designed for use in PCs, such as the DEC Multia,
> and was released in 1992 if memory serves, eleven years before the AMD
> Opteron and IBM G5.  It was based on the 21064 design (the first
> released Alpha chip) with an added memory controller.  The memory
> controller had fairly poor performance, though.

supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes:
> I should have stated the first mainstream 64-bit
> processor as in a 64-bit processor that can run
> a mainstream OS natively.

You're saying that Windows NT wasn't a mainstream OS???