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To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (174262)4/27/2003 10:10:46 AM
From: Joseph Pareti  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 186894
 
questions on OPTERON:

- how solid are the M$FT plans to support OPTERON?

- apparently there is a performance benefit in running 32 bit apps on top of Win64 vs Win32
amd.com

wouldn't the same benefit apply when running 32bit apps on Win64 on Itanium ?

- the db2 "2 days port" might be misleading in that even if a 32 bit legacy app does run, to produce the 64 bit app generally takes more than just recompiling :-)

- the vaunted "seamless migration" to 64bit
(http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/30172A_AMD64wp4-17.pdf) might be thwarted by higher performance IA32 processors that coexist in a mixed 32/64 bit environment thanks to smart software and cluster managagement tools