On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 05:29:54PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > x86-64 is a completely new architecture, not related to IA64 at all. Unfortunately it isn't completely new architecture; it's 64-bit extensions to layers of multimedia extensions to 32-bit extensions to a crap ISA. When will we ever leave the 8086 junk behind? :(