Re: [Alleg5] 64-bit processors

[Thomas F. <tfj...@st...>]

On February 26, 2004 12:32 pm, Chris wrote:
> Grim I. L=E5get wrote:
> >Well, today we have the opteron, Athlon64 and others from AMD
> >but who says that it will be that way in 5 years from now. Experience
> > tells us that we will have 64-bit processors, but rumours (old ones yes,
> > but I have seen nothing to make me thing otherwhise yet) tell me that
> > Intel (at least) will drop back-wards compatibility with the x86
> > instruction set
>
> Intel was originally going to do this, but from what I heard, Microsoft
> told them no, or else you can forget about Windows compatiblity. MS is
> going with AMD's x86-extended set, as opposed to Intel's all-new set,
> which would lead me to believe Intel's turning around and using an
> x86-extended set themselves.

=46rom what I understand, Intell originally planed on the Itanium rocking t=
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boat, but it flopped (like a fish out of water), horribly. Microsoft even=20
started working on a version of windows for it, but dropped it soon after.=
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After people started showing interest in AMD's x86-64 architecture, Intel=20
jumped on it.

One notable company that's been attacted to the Opteron is Google :) They h=
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stated they will not use the Itanium in thier clusters, to power hungry, ru=
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too hot... But they will use Opterons, go figure.

>
> - Kitty Cat


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Thomas Fjellstrom
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