Re: It is almost certain now, INTEL will have 64bit x86 !!

From: Andrew Harrison SUNUK Consultancy (Andrew_No.Harrison_No_at_nospamn.sun.com)
Date: 02/23/04

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    Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 09:59:17 +0000

    Robert Klute wrote:
    > On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 23:10:08 -0700, "Barry Treahy, Jr."
    > <Treahy@MMaz.com> wrote:
    >
    >
    >>Robert Klute wrote:
    >
    >
    >>Do you really believe MS is going to spend the money to support X86-64
    >>and IA-64? Nope, which means that HP is dealing with a low-volume
    >>processor! Doesn't Windows on Alpha ring a bell?
    >
    >
    > Stop looking at Microsoft's early 90s strategy to divine what they what
    > now. Microsoft needs a large SMP capable version of Windows and 64-bit
    > implementations of their applications to increase their presence in the
    > Enterprise space. Itanium is the processor capable of that.
    >

    So will Xeon by the end of this year. And Microsoft will not need to
    port one single line of code to get access to the new platform if
    they don't want to. So they will be porting the OS, development tools
    and probably SQL-Server but not much else, on Itanium everything has to
    be ported.

    Regards
    Andrew Harrison

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