Microsoft confirms Win XP64 will be OEM only

On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 00:13:22 -0400, George Macdonald wrote:

On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 23:22:46 -0700, Keith wrote:

On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 22:02:07 -0400, George Macdonald wrote:

I sure hope the XP-64 bounce-buffering is capable of being turned off,
either at install or boot-time, where it's not required... on AMD64. I'm
wondering if there are any 3rd party chipset mfrs who have a license to
the P4 FSB who might do the PCI Bus Mastering DMA right?? Didn't SiS
get a license a while back?

Just say no! ;-)

To WinXP-64?

Sure.

So how is your Opteron system running anyway?

It seems to be fine. It powered up and ran first try (even mounting the
fan-sink was a piece of cake). I did have to run out and buy a DVD drive
before I could install the OS. I forgot that all my CD and CD-R/W drives
are all SCSI narrow and the only spare controller I had, without
canibalizing my old system, is a 3940UW (oops).

It took three tries to get Linux installed so the dual-head worked (it
hung during the first install) and then again after I RTFM far enough to
flip the DVD over to install 64b Linux (oops two). I've since been trying
to find my way around Linux and glomb onto software that works as I like.


"Just because they're paranoid doesn't mean you're not psychotic" - Who,
me??

Check out PAN's "User-Agent:" header tag. When I first saw it I
thought of your sig. ;-)

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Keith