Alucard wrote:


Here is the MS/XP64bit site
http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsXP/64bit/default.asp
Its been available for almost a year to OEMs,via MSDN and usenet warez.


Thanks for the link, but isn't that the version of Windows XP written and
compiled for the Itanium. This shows that Microsoft has a 64 bit workstation
solution, but the workstation must have an Intel Itanium. This will not
install on x86-64.

Competition is good for all. It is good to see AMD pushing Intel harder
but
it is unlikely that any open source companies will ally with AMD. Why
limit their markets?

I agree the competition is good.

The way I worded my question may have seemed
to imply that I was asking if there would be an official alliance between
AMD and open source. I had in mind a de facto alliance, however temporary,
for both AMD and open source companies to market there products while Intel
and Microsoft got around to addressing x86-64. I read Intel may have an
x86-64 architecture CPU out in 2005, so any work done by open source
for x86-64 will not go to waste.


Adobe already tried a Solaris port of PhotoShop and it did not sell.at
all. Unlikely there will be a Linux build especially since PhotoShop runs
well under Wine.

Thats a shame. Maybe Adobe will give it another shot if they see Linux or
FreeBSD on AMD gaining momentum.

E