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Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel

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331 points giuliomagnifico | 3 comments | 25 Sep 25 18:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.643s | source
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zerocrates ◴[25 Sep 25 19:38 UTC] No.45377901[source]▶
I was one of those weird users who used the 64-bit version of Windows XP, with what I'm pretty sure was an Athlon 64 X2, both the first 64-bit chip and first dual-core one that I had.
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bunabhucan ◴[26 Sep 25 00:50 UTC] No.45381236[source]▶
We tried Windows 2000 Professional for the DEC Alpha for a GIS system in the late 90s. Suddenly made the $5000 PCs that could run it seem cheap.
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1. antod ◴[26 Sep 25 01:41 UTC] No.45381617[source]▶
Alpha support was removed in one of the later NT5 betas right? Makes sense that it would've been late 90s then, before it was renamed Windows 2000 for release.
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2. thequux ◴[26 Sep 25 10:15 UTC] No.45384806[source]▶
Years ago, I had a CD marked "Windows 2000 for Alpha RC1", which suggests that it was cancelled quite late in the release cycle.
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3. p_l ◴[26 Sep 25 12:23 UTC] No.45385687[source]▶
It was canceled essentially overnight by Compaq higher-ups, teams at Microsoft and Compaq learnt when they came to office. It was present on last release candidate before RTM, because it was essentially the only 64bit platform to actually fixup 32bit issues that prevented 64bit address space in earlier NT releases.