On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 04:45:07PM -0200, Bruno Cesar Ribas wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 06:31:16PM +0000, Pigeon wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 07:49:38AM -0800, Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: > > > --- Manu <seatmanu@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > is there gonna be a different version of 64 bits for > > > > intel 64 and AMD 64? > > > > > > Hmmm, check harware review sites for info on this. But till now, > > > Intel has not released any 64 bit processors. So can't tell! > > > > You sure? I'm not totally au fait with Intel's development path at the > > moment - AMD have been offering much more bang for the buck for some > > time now so that's where my attention has been directed. But I have > > some commercial CFD apps which came in a tarball of versions for > > several different platforms, including both Linux/ia32 and Linux/ia64. > > I don't see how they could have written the ia64 version if there > > weren't any ia64 processors to run it on, and I don't think it's very > > likely that they're simply using "ia64" as a synonym for "amd64". > > ia64 = ITANIUM :) > and it sure exists!! and they have ITANIUM2 That's kind of what I thought... <searches online stores> ...and they cost a grand, minimum, or several. Shee-yit. An order of magnitude more expensive than amd64. Bet the performance isn't an order of magnitude better. > ia64 and amd64 are diferent! > the instructions are diferents, now AMD wont continue "copying" the INTEL > architeture. I kind of suspected that as well. So I can't run ia64 apps on amd64. How dead and chewed. Well, thanks for your confirmation, even if it's not what I wanted to hear :-) -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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