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  • Re: VAX

    From Marco Moock@mm@dorfdsl.de to comp.arch,alt.folklore.computers on Sun Sep 21 16:20:19 2025
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    On 31.08.2025 16:43 Uhr Stefan Monnier wrote:

    Same here (tho I was on team Debian), but I don't think GNU/Linux
    enthusiasts were the main buyers of those Opteron and
    Athlon64 machines.

    Athlon 64 machines were mostly shipped with Windows XP 32 bit - even
    when XP 64 bit existed for that architecture.
    --
    kind regards
    Marco

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  • From Nuno Silva@nunojsilva@invalid.invalid to comp.arch,alt.folklore.computers on Sun Sep 21 15:45:52 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.arch

    On 2025-09-21, Marco Moock wrote:

    On 31.08.2025 16:43 Uhr Stefan Monnier wrote:

    Same here (tho I was on team Debian), but I don't think GNU/Linux
    enthusiasts were the main buyers of those Opteron and
    Athlon64 machines.

    Athlon 64 machines were mostly shipped with Windows XP 32 bit - even
    when XP 64 bit existed for that architecture.

    Which one was NT 5.2 and not 5.1? XP for IA-64 or XP for amd64?
    --
    Nuno Silva
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  • From Michael S@already5chosen@yahoo.com to comp.arch,alt.folklore.computers on Sun Sep 21 17:54:46 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.arch

    On Sun, 21 Sep 2025 15:45:52 +0100
    Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    On 2025-09-21, Marco Moock wrote:

    On 31.08.2025 16:43 Uhr Stefan Monnier wrote:

    Same here (tho I was on team Debian), but I don't think GNU/Linux
    enthusiasts were the main buyers of those Opteron and
    Athlon64 machines.

    Athlon 64 machines were mostly shipped with Windows XP 32 bit - even
    when XP 64 bit existed for that architecture.

    Which one was NT 5.2 and not 5.1? XP for IA-64 or XP for amd64?


    XP for AMD64. The same version number as WS2003 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows_versions


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