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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (53306)	8/30/2001 9:05:27 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 275872

wbmw, Re: "you are right about the software, which will be 32 bit, so the 64bit mode will be mostly unused, until the next version of Windows (Blackcomb) arrives." Do you know this for certain? No, it is just my opinion. I suppose there will be some hack of NT 5.X (aka Windows 2000, Windows XP) for Hammer, something like the Itanium version, but I doubt it will sell well, unless MSFT sells it for the same price as the 32bit version. BlackComb will apparently be written from ground up to be processor independent, and with proliferation of CLR and .NET, my guess is that a significant chunk of the OS will be written to the CLR runtime, not to the processor directly, and there will be different CLR virtual machines, just like in Java, which will be written to the processor hardware, and optimized for the processor. Joe