Andrew Suffield wrote:
run aground like ia64 did....?Why not? With the exception of i386 and sparc, pretty much everything else has. Processors don't win or lose based on anything, but, uhh.... ...sheer luck? I can't think of anything else.It's marketing. AMD64 has a significant advantage in that it can run i386 programs at full speed.
AMD64 also has the advantage that you can actually buy a computer using an AMD64 on the high street[1], which was not true for IA64. AMD64 is pretty much a safe bet I'd say.
Ross[1] 30 seconds on dixons.co.uk (a rip-off British highstreet electronics store) shows that £620 will get me an Athlon64 XP3000+ from HP)
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