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Subject: Re: 64 Bit Programs

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 03:35:02 06/29/03

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On June 28, 2003 at 14:23:50, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On June 28, 2003 at 12:12:15, Jay Urbanski wrote:
>
>>On June 28, 2003 at 10:33:45, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>Those are not true 64 bit processors.  Supposedly 32 bit stuff runs just
>>>fine on them, but they have 64 bit extensions.
>>
>>How is Opteron not a true 64-bit processor?
>
>
>Because it executes 32 bit instructions _also_.

P4 and AMD also execute 16-bit instructions, so they are 16 bit processors ?

BTW mov al,value is an 8 bit instruction so ....

Tony

>
>IE it is X86 compatible.



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