[Gllug] Which architecture?

[John Winters]

On Fri, 01 May 2009 13:34:25 +0100, James Holland
<holland.james at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
[snip]
> So you can run AMD64 on Intel then??

Yes, provided you have a 64-bit capable processor.  Intel did have a stab
at their own 64 bit architecture (ia64) but AFAIK it's been pretty much
abandoned.  They then licensed (am I remembering this right?) AMD's 64-bit
extensions and used that to produce x86-compatible processors with 64-bit
capabilities.  IIRC, Intel's own original 64 bit processors (Itanium?) were
not x86 compatible.

John
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