Re: x86-64 port of debian/linux

To: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Cc: Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>, Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: x86-64 port of debian/linux
From: Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 19:22:57 -0800
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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? :(

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