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Subject: Re: Deep-Fritz 18 on a 64 cpu itanium (intel not AMD) system

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 17:12:57 01/16/03

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On January 16, 2003 at 19:48:58, Terry McCracken wrote:

>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.
>
>Well the first generation were Bob...and if the third generation are not, then
>they are simply IA64.
>
>Terry


Apparently I was certainly wrong here.  I've got some IA64 docs, but haven't
run across anything that mentions the ability to execute ia32 stuff since the
instructions are as different as C and prolog



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