Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:11:38 01/16/03
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On January 16, 2003 at 20:01:32, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >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 is this with hardware or software emulation? IE the alpha had an emulator to execute old vax stuff. But it was horribly slow... I'm trying to think about how they could execute ia32 instructions which are so far different than ia64 it doesn't even make sense to talk about them at the same time... > >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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