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Old February 10th 06, 11:14 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64
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On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:07:45 +0000, Legend wrote:

Poorly informed individuals like yourself said the same thing about
32-bit processors years ago.


What , how the 386 came out in 1990 and microsoft milked the cash cow
until 32bit XP came out 10 years later, Nah , didnt enter my head

They might have milked you, but some of us didn't give them a chance.

and your 32bit stuff will actually run slower on it


Have you been drinking or doing drugs tonight?


32bit software will have to be emulated on a 64bit machine with a 64bit
OS... so it cant be as fast as running 32bit software on native 32bit
hardware or 64bit software on 64bit hardware


32 bit software isn't emulated on all 64 bit machines. Where have you
been the last 4 years. It runs as native code on the AMD 64 and the new
64 bit Intels. You're thinking of the other Intel 64 bit cpu, Itanium
IA-64 architecture, not X86. MS has a 64 bit version for it for years. It
was pretty much limited to servers and I guess it's still around. It does
emulate 32bit x86 code and I think that's what you're reffering to. And
buying one of these will require the IA-64 version of windows. It
definately isn't mainstream. Whole different animal. And I thought it was
about dead now. And I sure wouldn't recommend it either.:-) OTOH, there's
no reason to shy away from X86_64 as it's backwards compatible to even 16
bit code without emulatiion.

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