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To: Petz who wrote (69862)	8/25/1999 2:16:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1573096

<will McKinley also have x86 compatibility mode?> Yes. The IA-64 architecture guide released a while back already has a chapter entitled "IA-32 Application Execution Model in an IA-64 System Environment." So that suggests that all IA-64 processors will be able to translate IA-32 code. Plus, from my own limited point-of-view, I can infer that McKinley will support IA-32 compatibility, even if I didn't have access to that architecture guide. It boggles my mind to think that something like that is possible. Then again, modern processors like P6, K6, and Athlon already do some sort of x86 translation into internal RISC-like operations. I would guess IA-32 compatibility in Merced and McKinley would just build on top of the work already done during P6 development. Tenchusatsu