AMD-Microsoft Hammer memo: leaked?

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A Day in History
From: Heye, Richard
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 2:54 AM
To: J3; Ruiz, Hector; Herb, Rob; Siegle, Bill; Meyer, Dirk; Giannotti, Gino; Ellett, Ed; Vogel, Jerry; Eby, Tom; Zelencik, Steve; dl.k8eval; dl.K8-Platform
Subject: FW: A day in history

This accomplishment is a testimonial to great planning and execution by the entire Hammer team. We have a long way to go, but this is truly a major milestone in the hammer program. Thank you and congradulations (sic) to everyone who made this possible.

rich

From: David Cutler [mailtoavec@microsoft.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 7:27 PM
To: Bill Gates; Steve Ballmer; Jim Allchin; Brian Valentine; Vance, Mike; Brunner, Richard; Weber, Fred; Meretsky, Wayne Cc: AMD 64 bit working group; Forrest Foltz; David Cutler; Gordon Bell; Neill Clift; Samer Arafeh; Landy Wang; Jeff Havens; Andre Vachon; Bryan Tuttle; Simon Koeman; Kevin Frei; Bob Davidson; Terry Leeper; BV's Cabinet; Jim Allchin's Staff

Subject: A day in history

Today at 3pm we received the first AMD64 K8 based hardware system from AMD.

Today at 5pm we booted and are running the 64-bit versions of Windows XP on the AMD64 K8 system.

We are even running 32-bit apps under wow64!

The hardware system is unbelievably solid for a chip that just popped out of the oven a mere month ago.

In addition to running the 64-bit system we can dual boot into the 32-bit version of XP as well on the very same hardware without any changes!

Thanks are due to a great many people for their help and support in making this happen.

Watch this space for more news coming soon!


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[Wolfsraider]

it could very well be true but if you were sending this up the chain of command would you use third grade
english?
if i was typing (even) a memo and it was going to the ceo ,wow64, would not be how i expressed it lol



<< We are even running 32-bit apps under wow64! >>



and here

<< In addition to running the 64-bit system we can dual boot into the 32-bit version of XP as well on the very same hardware without any changes >>



i mean i know this is no small feat but sounds dramitized like a car salesman

but for what it is worth i hope it is true


one more thing though that bugs me here

Today at 3pm we received the first AMD64 K8 based hardware system from AMD.

Today at 5pm we booted and are running the 64-bit versions of Windows XP on the AMD64 K8 system

man if i had this baby in my hands at three oclock you can bet your sweet a@@ it would be loaded and primed in less than an hour lol

but loading the os's could have taken that long but not likely lol

again this IS MHO