MS will support Hammer 64

[Wombat]

Originally posted by Kooldino
then it will give developers a chance to make 64 bit versions of all of their 32 bit apps...a transition phase if you will, and then the next generation of CPUs won't need the legacy
support. KWIM?

Actually, that part's wrong, unfortunately. Having a 64-bit processor and 64-bit application won't help you with a 32-bit OS sitting in between.

Although, now that I think of it, if MS doesn't get a 64-bit version out for AMD, they could lose even <B>more</B> business to Opteron/Linux farms.

[Wombat]

And if you want to talk about legacy, that's all x86-64 is, more legacy.

Frankly, the x86 instruction methodolgy sucks these days. Processors like the Athlon devote their first three or so pipe stages just to decoding x86 into something that a real architecture can handle.

In this regard, IA-64 is much better. It really is time to leave x86 behind.

[az]

DGhost, sorry for the AMD press release - The MS stuff is telling though, I think.

But we all don't know what's going on inside MS, so we'll have to wait and see.

AZ

[az]

Its codename is Anvil (get it? hammer - anvil. hehe ), Mike Magee says it's due April 8th, Andreas Stiller says 21st. Whatever, Anyone up for a bet that it'll come? I say yes.

AZ