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To: Dan3 who wrote (78550)	4/27/2002 10:50:43 AM
From: Milan Shah	Respond to of 275872

There is a big difference, Hammer runs very well with 32-bit software - Itanic doesn't. Another critical big difference - x86-64 is extremely easy to learn, since most of the old concepts/instructions of x86 work. For those of you thinking that no one debugs or needs to know assembly anymore, think again ;-) Milan

To: Dan3 who wrote (78550)	4/27/2002 4:58:47 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Respond to of 275872

Dan, Re: "There is a big difference, Hammer runs very well with 32-bit software - Itanic doesn't." Another big difference, Itanium 2 runs very well with 64-bit software, and has a ton of support in the effort to port applications over to IA-64 - Flopteron doesn't. Re: "Consider it this way, if you had your choice between two chips with roughly the same price and performance (on the installed base of 32-bit software), but one was 32 bit only and the other was 64 bit, which would you buy?" If everything were equal, I'd go for the 64-bit chip. Duh. But you should know by now that everything isn't equal, and that's where your argument falls apart. wbmw