July 2nd, 2003, 01:14 AM
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Perl Monkey
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: the far end of town where the Grickle-grass grows
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True. The first link in this thread from MS touts how close the Win64 API is to the current Win32, allowing for easy migration. Minimal changing and a recompile and there's native code again. It's that compiler that has to be made anew.
And the Itanium and Opteron are precisly that, server CPUs. Both Intel and AMD have consumer-level versions of the chips in the works (well, for Intel it's a step from "server" to "workstation" I think, desktop is a ways off).
Last edited by icrf : July 2nd, 2003 at 01:16 AM.
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