AMD Athlon64 Systems

[leam]

Robert L Cochran wrote:
> I have a new question: would it be worthwhile investing in the Athlon64 
> from a programming perspective? E.g. write 64 bit programs while the 
> rest of the world is still living on 32 bits?
> 
> Thanks everyone for answering my original question about the Athlon64. I 
> was surprised at the amount of response and I see even more clearly now 
> that there are a lot of folks out there like Jesse, Seth et al who are 
> right in the front lines of hardware technology.
> 
> Bob

Have you gotten the series of books from AMD on the CPU? There are 5 and 
they may still send them to you free. Though if you really want to just 
do 64 bits, go buy an old Sparc64 like an Ultra1 or Ultra2. 64bits for 
much less.

ciao!

leam