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

    Or something like that... =)

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  5. 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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  6. 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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