On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 16:19:54 -0600,
Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net> wrote:
That would be AMD that fixed it, not Intel. Intel tried to push
everybody to a new architecture (Itanium), while AMD revised and
extended i386 to 64 bits. After Itanium failed to catch on in the
marketplace, Intel had to copy AMD's work.
I expect that has a lot to do with AMD being open source friendly. If they
had had to rely on Microsoft to get an OS to run on their machine, they
probably would have failed as well.