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To: Scumbria who wrote (105571)7/13/2000 1:09:56 PM
From: Adam Nash   of 186894
 
The Itanium does provide full IA-32 compatibility in hardware. However, that doesn't mean that IA-32 code will somehow get magical access to a 64-bit address space. That's the operating system's job, and in order to implement it the operating system will have to contain IA-64 instructions.

Thus, Microsoft could have included that functionality in the straight Windows 2000. However, that would have greatly increased the complexity of the product and likely delayed it even further.

My point was that no one cares if the OS version is different, as long as it can run all Win32 applications properly and with reasonable speed. If I were you, I'd worry more about the latter, as the IA-32 benchmark speeds are increasing much faster than expected, and IA-64 is rolling out slower than expected.
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