Large memory issues on 4-STABLE

Doug White dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Mon Sep 29 09:27:44 PDT 2003


On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > Not for long.  Opteron systems are even now quite price-competitive with
> > i386, although I don't know the availability for people outside the US.  I
> > can go to a local computer shop and buy dual Opteron server boards and
> > processors and not pay much more than for a nice Xeon system, and the
> > workstation class stuff will be out Real Soon Now.
>
> RSN has already come. Today's Fry's ad in the SJ Mercury lists an
> AMD64 3200+ with mobo for about $650. (I don't recall the mobo.)

Athlon64s aren't SMP capable, which is why I explicitly said Opteron. :)

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