Re: Apple, Jobs, and the irony of it

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

Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
> 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.

Richard Kilpatrick <richard@dmc12.demon.co.uk> writes:
> With a 64-bit bus?

No, the Opteron doesn't have a 64-bit bus.  It has a 144-bit data bus
(128 data bits and 8 ECC bits).  Although it can be configured to
64 bits if you only want to use one DIMM and no ECC.