I guess the implication is that the proper thing Intel should have done is
develop its own set of 64-bit extensions, making it absolutely incompatible with AMD's offering.
Oh? Didn't they do that? Besids, the x86-64 instruction set is included in the Prescott core (Pentium 4E) but only activated in the upcoming Xeon revision not your plain vanilla Pentium 4E. Intel thinks this won't be needed until 2006. So keep off buying a P4 despite this news if you want 64 bit goodness.
No chance of a Linux or Mac OS X version because Valve, the developper of HL 1&2 was founded (ex: Gabe Newell) by people with strong ties to Microsoft. Here is the proof: Counter Strike (based on HL1) is the most played game on the internet bar none and runs on modest hardware. So if porting a game for Mac/Linux was ever viable, this would be the game, and would surley have a good return on investment. Yet this never happened, and never will. Well... we still have Doom III to look forward to.
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Oh? Didn't they do that? Besids, the x86-64 instruction set is included in the Prescott core (Pentium 4E) but only activated in the upcoming Xeon revision not your plain vanilla Pentium 4E. Intel thinks this won't be needed until 2006. So keep off buying a P4 despite this news if you want 64 bit goodness.
No chance of a Linux or Mac OS X version because Valve, the developper of HL 1&2 was founded (ex: Gabe Newell) by people with strong ties to Microsoft. Here is the proof: Counter Strike (based on HL1) is the most played game on the internet bar none and runs on modest hardware. So if porting a game for Mac/Linux was ever viable, this would be the game, and would surley have a good return on investment. Yet this never happened, and never will. Well... we still have Doom III to look forward to.