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Intel's Itanium Will Get x86 Emulation

Posted by timothy on from the for-all-the-backwards-x86-users dept.

pissoncutler writes "Intel has announced that they will be releasing a software emulation product to allow 32-bit x86 apps to run on Itanium Processors. According to these stories (story 1, story 2), the emulator is capable of the x86 performance of a 1.5Ghz Xeon (when run on a similar speed Itanium.) Who said that no one cared about x86 anymore?"

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  1. Re:Enough already! by 0x0d0a · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Because Macs are slow and expensive compared to x86 hardware, but Mac users want their OS.

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