On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:45:45 -0500, chrisv wrote:
Wes Newell wrote:
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:18:24 -0400, krw wrote:
says...
Of course AMD _did_ come up with "x86-64", which is an improvement
over the x86 (obviously even Intel thinks so).
Intel did too, but had no interest in pushing it forward to product.
Funny, that's not how I recall it. Intel dropped their x86-64 bit plans
after trying to push it onto Microsoft, and Microsoft telling them to
shove off. I think this link will get more to the truth.
That was later. Intel had explored 64-bit extensions to X86 years
earlier. (How could they not? CPU's are their business.)
Of course they had. But they didn't want 64 bit to come out for x86 to
compete with Itanium. And by trying to protect it, they basically screwed
themselves. Only after AMD released theirs did they try to bring their x86
64 bit code out. MS had already done a version of windows for Itanium and
weren't going to play Intels games at their expense.
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