Re: migrating to AMD Athlon64

From: Roedy Green (roedy_at_seewebsite.com)
Date: 10/30/03


Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 19:55:18 GMT

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:10:12 GMT, mike@nospam.com (Mike) wrote or
quoted :

>Are there or will there soon be virtual machines that support it?
>Would I have to alter my JSP code?

there was an announcement some time back that AMD and Sun were going
to support there Opteron with a 64 bit Java. I don't know about the
OS though.

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