RE: [gentoo-user] What to use for a Intel Xeon processor (IA64 or AMD64) ?

2007-04-24 Thread Nelson, David J
-Original Message- From: qfpvajdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 April 2007 10:42 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] What to use for a Intel Xeon processor (IA64 or AMD64) ? I'm a little confused. I just bought a Intel Xeon 64 Bits processors and now I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] What to use for a Intel Xeon processor (IA64 or AMD64) ?

2007-04-24 Thread Davi
Em Terça 24 Abril 2007 06:49, Nelson, David J escreveu: -Original Message- From: qfpvajdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 April 2007 10:42 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] What to use for a Intel Xeon processor (IA64 or AMD64) ? I'm a little

Re: [gentoo-user] What to use for a Intel Xeon processor (IA64 or AMD64) ?

2007-04-24 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 24 April 2007 13:02:57 Davi wrote: I know that Intel Xeon processors have EM64T support, which means normally full compatibility to AMD64? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA64 IA64 is Itanium CPUs I think - you should go with amd64. But Xeon is Itanium's substitute...

Re: [gentoo-user] What to use for a Intel Xeon processor (IA64 or AMD64) ?

2007-04-24 Thread Davi
Em Terça 24 Abril 2007 08:07, Bo Ørsted Andresen escreveu: On Tuesday 24 April 2007 13:02:57 Davi wrote: I know that Intel Xeon processors have EM64T support, which means normally full compatibility to AMD64? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA64 IA64 is Itanium CPUs I think - you

RE: [gentoo-user] What to use for a Intel Xeon processor (IA64 or AMD64) ?

2007-04-24 Thread Nelson, David J
But Xeon is Itanium's substitute... isn't? Nope. Itanium and Xeon are developed in parallel. Where Xeon is based off of desktop CPU architecture (x86, AMD64, et al) the Itanium (aka Itanic due to slow uptake) is a 64bit CPU completely from scratch. -- djn I do not represent anyone else