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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. i object ! by ibbie · · Score: 5, Funny

    I haven't seen enough info on the new IBM PowerPC 970 CPU expected shorty.

    watch who you're calling shorty, farm boy.

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    1. Re:i object ! by mblase · · Score: 1, Funny

      watch who you're calling shorty, farm boy.

      There, there. Most women will say it's not the size, but what you do with it that counts, anyhow.

    2. Re:i object ! by FroMan · · Score: 5, Funny

      This is an apple.slashdot.org post, that should be iObject, not i object.

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  2. Eh? by The+Bungi · · Score: 4, Funny
    but feel Linux is still not ready for the desktop yet

    Please mod story as (-1, Flamebait).

    1. Re:Eh? by Elwood+P+Dowd · · Score: 4, Funny

      Not to mention:

      "Could we be that lucky?"

      Approx. 8 million (+5, Insightful) comments in stories past have pointed out that:

      NO, MORON, WE WILL NOT BE THAT LUCKY.

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  3. Re:Ho ho ho by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny
    iBooks start at must run a Free OS, then by all means stick to them
    Much confusion in this one there is. Train him I will not.
  4. Re:Missed an option: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Then get an eMac, they're only $999. You know, a grand over a comporable pc.

  5. Re:Maybe for a while... by RealErmine · · Score: 1, Funny

    that would make people less inclined to write software that is still compatible with the PPC architecture I own

    Too late.

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  6. Someone had to say it.... by word+munger · · Score: 3, Funny
    This would give new meaning to the term "PC Card"!
    <emote>groan</emote>
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  7. Speaking of education by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    iBooks start at must run a Free OS, then by all means stick to them.

    It looks like you never got any.

  8. Re:Stolen, but insightful. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I remember my high school used to have a few computers with these cards installed. Very few adults, not to mention students, knew about them or how to use them. I remember you just had to press a couple of keys and it would switch right over to the dos prompt and you could start windows. Then you could switch back and forth by pressing the keys, it was fairly impressive(to me at the time). The best was when someone was using one of the computers and you switched it to dos on them, they would freak out.

  9. Re:Stolen, but insightful. by eMilkshake · · Score: 2, Funny
    Well, yeah, but that was also the model w/o a CD-ROM eject button and placed the power button directly under the CD-ROM tray.

    And what do you think the Windows users did? And why do you think they hated the Mac?

  10. I would like to run... by vDave420 · · Score: 3, Funny
    ...a C64 emulator on an x86 emulator on 1.5Ghz...

    Or something like that... =)

    -dave-
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    1. Re:I would like to run... by calags · · Score: 2, Funny

      I guess that would make it a 64-bit Commodore 64!

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  11. Do you know what this means??????? by peculiarmethod · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow, I mean WOW.
    NOOOOW I can watch my old dos demos from Unreal and The Humble Crew in less time than my brain can percieve them. Just what topped last years christmas list.

    pm

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    1. Re:Do you know what this means??????? by MrLint · · Score: 1, Funny

      let me know when someone figures out how to play all of those bootable only floppy games:)

  12. And I thought it was just going to be ... by craigeyb · · Score: 5, Funny

    And I thought it was just going to be a space heater.

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