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To: Dan3 who wrote (160011)	2/24/2002 11:09:43 PM
From: Monica Detwiler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Dan3 - You mistakenly claimed Ahhh, but the legion of 32-bit applications that companies have spent millions of dollars buying and developing won't run on Intel's 64-bit solution - but they will run on AMD's 64-bit solution. No - they won't. They will run on the 32 bit part of AMD's Hammer - just like they will run on Intel's 32 bit Xeon processor line. Programs will need to be rewritten and recompiled to use the 64 bit resources of the Hammer, otherwise they will have no use of the extra hardware. Do you think there is any x86 code that is currently aware of the 32 registers in the x86-64 architecture, or the 48 address bits? No. And these company's installed base of 32-bit apps will run faster on AMD's 64-bit systems than they will on AMD's or Intel's 32-bit systems. And, AMD's 64-bit solution will run 64-bit apps too, in the cases where 64-bit apps make sense. Please provide some benchmarks, would you Dan3, to support this claim, otherwise I and everyone else will once again dismiss this as yet another Dan3 flight-of-fantasy in your quest to create your own personal reality. And as a further exercise, would you also post those applications that are being written for AMD's Hammer architecture? Thanks a bunch, Dan3. Monica