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On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 13:39 -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: |
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> > I hope this not. As (iirc) I already said, it's impossible to combine x86 with |
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> > anything else that's not 100% source and binary compatible with itself... |
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> > The reason is actually simple: x86 is, or at least was, the reference |
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> > architecture for almost all programmers. |
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> Witih amd64 becoming so widespread, this will change. |
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> > There are too many packages that works *just* on x86, both at source and |
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> > binary level. |
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> Doesn't the amd64 team have a set of 32-bit compat libs just to run |
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> binary packages? When running 32-bit code, isn't amd64 basically just a |
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> glorified athlon-xp? |
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No. It just has the same *instruction* set as an Athlon XP, plus SSE2 |
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and even SSE3 in newer models. There's also the Intel EM64T stuff which |
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is more like a P4 than an Athlon XP, since it has no 3Dnow! support. |
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