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2003.10.07


Meeting Minutes

Marc Miller, AMD
AMD64 and Linux - the Platform of Choice

Kemper Hall, Room 1131, UC Davis

Photos by Bill Kendrick


Marc tests out various distributions of Linux in his work, and puts each on a different removable drive!


A table full of books, software and shirts to raffle!


The 'welcome' section, and a bunch of free stuff.


Lots of catalogs!


Stephen Matthew Helms shows off one of the shirts AMD brought to give away


Close-up of the tie-dye AMD shirt.


A whole stack of free AMD shirts!


More free give-aways.


Even more free stuff!


The slowly-shrinking stack of old Linux Journal magazines we're giving out for free.


Another AMD shirt pose.


Marc inserts a drive into his AMD64 system.


Ryan Castelluci is one of today's raffle winners.


So much to raffle... so many winners... line forming!!!


People start getting picky over what to take.


Richard Burkhart wins and picks out a book.


Another lucky raffle winner!


More raffle winners!


Finally, business and raffle taken care of, Marc begins his presentation.


We dim (half) the lights.


AMD64 is good at gaming!


Marc Miller from AMD.


Marc describing the current standard PC architecture, and how the various parts interact on the bus.


The AMD system is more flexible and scalable.


More Marc Miller.


The crowd, watching.


A bevvy of companies that produce products or devices that use Hypertransport technology.


Various OS vendor involvement: SUSE, Mandrake, Red Hat, TurboLinux, Microsoft.


Marc tries to count a list of contacts in his PDA.


The AMD64 system gets booted up, and we start playing. "uname -m" reports "x86_64"


A dump of "/proc/cpuinfo"


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