Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 17:01:32 01/16/03
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Itanium (I and II) can natively execute x86 code. Performance is not great, but often sufficient. I.e. it's possible to run some x86 program that was not ported to the IA-64. For example, engineer can run natively compiled CAD package and x86 mail client on the same system. Thanks, Eugene On January 16, 2003 at 19:45:02, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 16, 2003 at 19:37:27, Terry McCracken wrote: > >>On January 16, 2003 at 18:07:16, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >> >>>you do realize itanium != IA32, don't you? >>> >>>every indication is that fritz is wholly or partially written in assembly . . . >>> >>>anthony >> >>The Itanium is IA64 with backwards compatibility to run IA32 based programmes. > > >Not the itaniums I am aware of. They are a completely new and incompatible >architecture. > >AMD has announced a 64 bit processor with backward compatibility. But >definitely not Itanium.
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