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Intel's Itanium 2: Succeed or Fail?

Posted by Hemos on Monday February 3, 2003 @02:44AM from the what-will-the-world-make-of-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "'Intel's most powerful processor ever has the ability to take on IBM, sink Sun, make or break HP, and crush or revive AMD,' says Fortune's David Kirkpatrick. But the 64-bit question is what happens to the heavyweight competition if Itanium 2 succeeds or fails?"

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Re:It's all about the OS by redbaron7 · 2003-02-03 03:00 · Score: 5, Informative

Windows NT has been available on the Alpha for at least 6 years - I've had the installation CDs for at least that long!
I've worked on 64-bit conversion projects for applications on HP-Unix, and it tends not be as trivial as it should be. I'd compare it to converting a 16 bit Windows app to 32-bit Windows. Yes, both should be trivial, but there are enough gotchas! On a per line of code, the Windows conversion was probably more involved, but then that was because it wasn't written as well - eg. assuming an "int" is 16 bits long.
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