begin Bill Broadley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > sorry, don't know much about this subject, but i should prolly start to > > get acquainted with it. > > > > i thought hammer == opteron? wasn't hammer the internal codename for > > what's now called opteron? > > Er, Hammer = code name. Clawhammer = desktop code name. Sledgehammer = server > code name. > > Architecture is called x86-64. > > The first 2 implementations are called: > Athlon 64 (desktop) for 1-2 way systems > Opteron for 1-8 way systems (more with extra glue). you're referring to SMP here?
and neither claw nor sledgehammer will be available to the general public till september as of right now? > > also, will the itanium "just work" as well? > > No, the Itanium is the first implemenation of the IA64 architecture. The > current chip is the Itanium-2. I believe the limited and very slow ia32 > emulation is for user space, not for booting a ia32 based linux distribution. > > Not to mention paying $15k for a dual IA64-2 only able to run ia32 code > as fast as a PII-300 is kinda silly. sounds like intel is shooting itself in the foot... pete -- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi, being prophetic about Linux. Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
