[nflug] AMD64 Debian 'Etch' Stability

[David J. Andruczyk]

by doing that they can use only a small number of chipsets for a large number of boards. .  Simple economics.  chipsets are expensive to design, engineer, build and test.


 -- David J. Andruczyk


----- Original Message ----
From: K O <wpos2 at roadrunner.com>
To: nflug at nflug.org
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 7:08:58 PM
Subject: Re: [nflug] AMD64 Debian 'Etch' Stability



David J. Andruczyk pisze:
> 64 bit  OS's are needed for only the few reasons:
>  1. you have more than 4 GB of ram, AND you want your processes to be able to address all of it (Databases,  high performance virtualization,  VMware ESX, Xen, etc)

Then I wonder: what is the logic of going thru the trouble of making a 
motherboard that will accept a 64 bit processor but no more than 2 GB of 
RAM?  Sounds like a decision driven by marketing to reel in guinea 
pig/fools like me, much like with Windows ME.  (Fortunately, I see past 
the latter.)  Perhaps Speed Step has the potential to fill in somewhat.
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