Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 18:28:54 01/16/03
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On January 16, 2003 at 20:11:38, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... Itanium x86 support is in hardware, and it is more than horribly slow. Eugene's example of a mail program is about the most intensive thing I'd want to even try running on it.
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