AMD details Pacifica virtualisation plan

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This AMD tech will alow multile operating systems to run on the same box with more ease

Much like a competing product from Intel, AMD's Pacifica will bring the technology called virtualisation to server and desktop processors. Pacifica is due out in the first half of 2006.

Virtualisation, which breaks the tight coupling between hardware and software, enables software flexibility such as the capability of running multiple operating systems. That's useful for servers juggling multiple tasks and for desktop PCs divided into separate regions for personal, work and administrative uses, and a start-up called XenSource is hoping to capitalise on the idea.

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