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Porting Linux Software to the IA64 Platform

Posted by Hemos on from the hey-now-get-yer-port-on dept.

axehind writes "In this Byte.com article, Dr Moshe Bar explains some of the differences between IA32 and IA64. He also explains some things to watch out for when porting applications to the IA64 architecture."

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  1. Has anyone thought of... by Ben+Edwards · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's an old frustration I've had with Windows having to do with the time it takes to boot. Why can't they put Windows on an EPROM chip (perhaps on the motherboard, perhaps on a card) so that the OS is all in hardware? Booting would be so much faster.

    Has anyone thought of doing this with Linux?