Here in sunny Monaco, where space is so tight, if they really want to whack up a new building they have to stick it on the roof of one already here, AMD has been wooing system builders with a demo of a two-way Sledgehammer running a 64-bit windows .net OS.
Usually staid box shifters were spotted licking their lips at the sight of a pair of Opterons wired up to a single way Clawhammer in what we believe is the first public demo of a functioning 64-bit Windows.Net system. Here"s what we think is the part number, for those interested in such things: 3620RAB01-N02033-2000
AMD claims software vendors are falling over themselves to develop 64-bit apps and OSes to run on the platform. Although he refused to name names AMD"s manager of the server and workstations group in the US, Mark Tellez, told THE INQ that "practically all" the main software makers had asked for Opteron systems to try out their 64-bit software on.
AMD"s Euro marketing chief Robert Stead told an audience here that the companies MP systems were already a success.