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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (155758)	1/16/2002 5:15:07 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 186894

wbmw, The first is that MSFT will be able to leverage very little from Itanium for Hammer (the architectures are simply too different), I think you are wrong on this one. The code base will be the same. There will be different compilers to generate different executable code, but beyond some very narrow performance critical routines, the code will be the same. and second, building a Hammer OS will be harder than some seem to think. Building any OS is harder than most people think. Building Hammer OS from scratch would be as difficult or more than say Itanium. But Microsoft has 2 (source) code bases available: ia32 and ia64. This makes the Hammer Windows a much smaller and manageable project. Joe