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| From: | "Nelson | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | RE: [gentoo-user] What to use for a Intel Xeon processor (IA64 or AMD64) ? | ||
| Date: | Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:25:30 | ||
| Message-Id: | 3D60AF2712C16D42A38076E52FD6E3D25E1BCF@ukmcrdembx01.rd.astrazeneca.net | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] What to use for a Intel Xeon processor (IA64 or AMD64) ? by Davi |
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| 1 | > |
| 2 | > But Xeon is Itanium's substitute... isn't? |
| 3 | > |
| 4 | |
| 5 | Nope. Itanium and Xeon are developed in parallel. Where Xeon is based off of desktop CPU architecture (x86, AMD64, et al) the Itanium (aka Itanic due to slow uptake) is a 64bit CPU completely from scratch. |
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| 8 | -- |
| 9 | djn |
| 10 | |
| 11 | I do not represent anyone else in emails I send to this list. |
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| 13 | gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |