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Linus Has Harsh Words For Itanium

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the dirty-naughty-itanium dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "As a follow up to the earlier story "Intel: No Rush to 64-bit Desktop"... In words that Intel are likely to be far from happy with, the Finnish luminary has stuck the boot into Itanium. His responses to some questions on processor architecture are sure to be music to AMD's ears. Linus, in an Inquirer interview concludes: "Code size matters. Price matters. Real world matters. And ia-64... falls flat on its face on ALL of these."" Of course, Linus works for a chip maker ;)

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  1. Wrong Credits by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    While posted on The Inquirer, this was not an interview, it was sourced from a discussion on the Linux Kernel mailing list. See Here

    Regards

    RDK

  2. Re:Linus too Harsh by prisonernumber7 · · Score: 0, Redundant


    2^32 bits is 4294967296 bytes, that's 4096 megabytes.

    It mathematically maxes out at 4gb thusly. So unless somebody placed an unnecessary limitation on it (i.e. allowing memory addressing only with 31 bits, which would result in your acclaimed 2gb of ram), our cpus are set for 4gb.

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