On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 04:25:38AM -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote: [...]
> AMD was the first on the market with 64bit hardware. (I was an early > adopter) Well, nearly. Itanium Merced was 2001 [1] (althoug you wouldn't buy /that/ as a private person), DEC Alpha was even 1992 [2]; it was the first 64 bit hardware which ran Linux. The first AMD64 aka x86-64 was the Opteron, from AMD, 2003 [3]. But yes, it was (if you ignore for a moment the second-hand alphas) the first us mere mortals could, you know, buy. Cheers [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium#Itanium_(Merced):_2001 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alpha [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opteron - t
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