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On Thursday 17 January 2008, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Thursday 17 January 2008 11:42:37 Tomas Papan wrote: |
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> > in case that you want use 64bit system chose amd64 and |
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> > -march=nocona |
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> OK, thanks. What then is IA64 for? |
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Itanium2. |
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You don't want to go there. Trust me. |
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It's a bastard evolution of one of Intel's worst ideas ever - Itanium, |
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which was their first 64 bit effort. Only HP ever used it and it was a |
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disaster in the market. Windows and Linux have never run on it. AMD did |
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it right with amd64 which Intel copied as emt64. Meanwhile Itanium2 |
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came along, called IA64 in Linux terms. The only place you will ever |
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see this architecture is in a data centre, and the machine will be at |
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least 8 years old. |
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alan |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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