> I noticed there is no AMD64 edition of openoffice. I assume this is so > because the java .exe launcher for windows only needs to be 32-bit and > thus runs on either platform just fine. and Java runs on any platform. > > am I getting warm?
Not really. The X86_64 build is for all 64 bit CPUs other than Itanium. My machine has an AMD Athlon 64 X3 CPU, and is running the X86_64 Linux build (RPM based). The JRE included with it is also 64 bit. However, as Marcus pointed out, there is currently no 64 bit Windows build, from following the QA, porting ands releases lists I believe that is more of a porting or compiler problem. > > I have no idea what happens if you install OOo on the IA64 platform, since > I don't know if 32-bit apps run properly on IA64 or not, I have never > tested on a server - I would assume microsoft (like an x64 system) would > allow you to run 32-bit apps on IA64 just as you could on x64 windows. IA64, aka Itanium, (someone correct me here) is a pure 64 bit CPU. Whereas AMD Athlon (and now Intel) chips have the ability to run in both 64 bit and 32 bit mode, AIUI Itanium does not. > > I wonder if anyone has ever tested this (just curious for an app usability > standpoint)? > Does anyone still have IA64 boxen anymore? I thought the only procs out > there for windows servers currently was Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron, both > being x64 which also double as 32-bit if your OS so chooses? Probably still a number of IA64 boxen around. The platform lost out because it essentially required, at the very least, that everything had to be recompiled, usually completely rewritten, just to get it to run. Many (most?) companies didn't see any advantage at that time over simply adding more sockets. That said, there are IA64 builds for Linux available. > > ------------ > Jim Michaels > [email protected] > [email protected] > http://JimsComputerRepairandWebDesign.com > http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has software) > http://DoLifeComputers.JesusnJim.com (group which I lead) > --- > Computer memory/disk size measurements: > [KB KiB] [MB MiB] [GB GiB] [TB TiB] > [10^3B=1000B=1KB][10^6B=1000000B=1MB][10^9B=1000000000B=1GB][10^12B=1000000 > 000000B=1TB] > > [2^10B=1024B=1KiB][2^20B=1048576B=1MiB][2^30B=1073741824B=1GiB][2^40B=10995 > 11627776B=1TiB] > > Note: disk size is measured in MB, GB, or TB, not in MiB, GiB, or TiB. > computer memory (RAM) is measured in MiB and GiB. > -- Alex Fisher Co-Lead, CD-ROM Project OpenOffice.org Marketing Community Contact Australia/New Zealand http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/
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