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From: Robin KAY <komadori@myrealbox.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 VM for Windows/Linux?
Date: Mon,  2 Dec 2002 09:58:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DE8946D.F42985AC@myrealbox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211300204330.14621-100000@george.home.org>


Doc Shipley wrote:

>   Only if you're a fan of x86's "backward-compatible-forever"
> philosophy.  I'm looking forward to seeing an AMD processor that isn't
> saddled with all of Intel's cruft.

But it is, the Hammer/Opteron will be fully compatible with the 32 bit Intel
Architecture. 64 bit addressing and the extended register set will be
enabled by a mode bit. The AA64 architecture is only a slight variation on
IA32 anyway.

--
Wishing you good fortune,
--Robin Kay-- (komadori)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-12-02  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-26 20:47 Keith Nash
2002-11-26 21:01 ` Doc Shipley
2002-11-27  9:40   ` Robin KAY
2002-11-27 18:11   ` Dan Cross
2002-11-30  8:11     ` Doc Shipley
2002-11-30 14:51       ` Dan Cross
2002-12-02  9:58       ` Robin KAY [this message]
2002-11-27 10:45 ` Martin C.Atkins
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-27  1:31 Joel Salomon
2002-11-26 14:19 Skip Tavakkolian
2002-11-26 18:10 ` suspect
2002-11-26  6:19 Geoff Collyer
2002-11-26  9:49 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-11-26 16:24 ` Jack Johnson
2002-11-27 16:45   ` Steven Taschuk
2002-11-26  2:34 Skip Tavakkolian

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