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by the-rc 2506 days ago
You're right. There were also not a lot of AMD boards at first, to the point that services had to prove "Opteron worthiness". Unless your load tests showed improvements of 70% or faster, presumably what the most important products were seeing, you couldn't run on them. Those were the days. The next generation Intel systems weren't a great improvement, but they still ended up being built in large numbers.