Thanks for the technical paper link, which includes Sun selling Opteron boxes. There are some stories to tell from Solaris-land relating to this, but NGL, I have no idea how many lawyers from multiple firms would object? You can see hints in the illumos source history from the OpenSolaris days: https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate
Hard to say but generally I feel like events from 20+ years ago are not worth a lawyer’s time pursuing; I’m not sure what sort of damages they could claim.
One year under Oracle occupation after 14 years of Sun has me... skittish. Also, any IA64 work done by the Solaris group was under some typical-for-Intel NDA-ish-type-stuff (ridiculously so, as it turned out). Glad I avoided it all back then.
Hans De Vries figured it out from die shots in March/April 2003:
April 2003: http://www.chip-architect.org/news/2003_04_20_Looking_at_Intels_Prescott_part2.html
March 2003: http://www.chip-architect.org/news/2003_03_26_Prescott_clues_for_Yamhill.html
I'm a little disappointed there's no mention of Solaris, which had amd64 support with the 2005 shipment of Solaris 10 FCS.
Thanks for the technical paper link, which includes Sun selling Opteron boxes. There are some stories to tell from Solaris-land relating to this, but NGL, I have no idea how many lawyers from multiple firms would object? You can see hints in the illumos source history from the OpenSolaris days: https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate
Hard to say but generally I feel like events from 20+ years ago are not worth a lawyer’s time pursuing; I’m not sure what sort of damages they could claim.
One year under Oracle occupation after 14 years of Sun has me... skittish. Also, any IA64 work done by the Solaris group was under some typical-for-Intel NDA-ish-type-stuff (ridiculously so, as it turned out). Glad I avoided it all back then.