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Linus on Intel's 64 bit Extensions

Posted by michael on from the amd-inside dept.

ceswiedler writes "KernelTrap is running a thread on the Linux-Kernel mailing list about Intel's new IA-32e 64-bit chip. Linus complains 'what I found so irritating is that _hours_ after the Intel announcement, people were _still_ confused about whether the new intel chip was actually compatible with AMD's chips.' It is, of course, but you have to do a thorough comparison of Intel's reference manuals to discover that-- they don't mention the fact that their new chip is instruction-set compatible with AMD's x86-64 chip." See the previous story for background. So it looks like the reason Intel was vague about their announcement is that they didn't want the WORLD TO KNOW THAT THEY WERE COPYING AND FOLLOWING AMD rather than developing some new thing on their own. Slashdot is proud to help Intel in this quest; wouldn't want the public to know that INTEL WAS SIMPLY FOLLOWING IN AMD'S FOOTSTEPS. Hope this helps.

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  1. Grammar Nazi: th[ey'|ei|er]r[e] by tommck · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Linus said that there compaitible, therefore intel is following in there footsteps.

    Translation:

    Linus said that they're compatible, therefore Intel is following in their footsteps.

    Come on people, it's not that hard!

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  2. Re:Full Linus Message by Jetson · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Well, the thing is, I _like_ a vendor-neutral name.

    You mean like Pentium?

  3. ObSerdar by SW6 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    P.S. UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED.

  4. Yeah... by fitten · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    INTEL WAS SIMPLY FOLLOWING IN AMD'S FOOTSTEPS.

    Yeah, because EVERYONE knows that AMD had the world's first 64-bit processor.

  5. Re:Here's my 64-bit opinion: by probbka · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "The Cuntpunching Popefelchers". That sounds like an awesome name for a band!!!

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  6. Re:Here's my 64-bit opinion: by Ian+Wolf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is even funnier if you imagine Lewis Black saying it.

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  7. The Intel Alphabet by dpaulson · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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