From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Robin KAY Message-ID: <3DE8946D.F42985AC@myrealbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200211271811.gARIBWw00341@augusta.math.psu.edu>, Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 VM for Windows/Linux? Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 09:58:53 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2b5129cc-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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)