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Re: Apple, Jobs, and the irony of it

Subject: Re: Apple, Jobs, and the irony of it
From: MagerValp <MagerValp@cling.gu.se>
Date: 18 Aug 2003 14:27:17 +0200
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>>>>> "S" == Supertimer  <supertimer@aol.com> writes:

S> Also, the claim that the G5 is the first PC 64-bit processor is
S> also wrong. That title belongs to AMD's Opteron chip which was
S> released in April, several months ahead of the G5.

Sun UltraSPARC IIi, available in a sub $1500 system since autumn 2000
or something like that, and it's a full 64-bit design. UltraSPARC I
chips were available even earler than that (97?), but only in
"workstation" machines.

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