According to Timothy J. Massey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Sat, 28 Aug 1999 13:02:51 +0200, Wouter Coene wrote:
> >They're not actually virtualizing it. The chip simply contains silicon for
> >both IA64 and IA32, and full hardware access is available for both. I dunno
> >how they sorted out the protected mode stuff though. Perhaps you can't run
> >IA32-PM code with an IA64-PM OS (PM of course means Protected Mode).
>
> I'm not doubting your informtion, but where did you see this? I haven't
> heard anything about this, and the original IA-64 specs specifically
> mentioned that they would *not* be doing that. But, it's not like Intel
> can't change their mind...
I've got the information from a dutch computer magazine called
Computer!Totaal. The actual sentence is "To maintain 100% compatibility with
the old IA32 architecture, Intel is adding an extra IA32 part to the
Merced".
It could be that I've misinterpreted this information and that they're
virtualizing it anyways. :^)
Wouter
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