Re: 64-bit Architecture

[naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)]

Alex Charyna <charyna@ellipsys.com> wrote:

> If that Itanium is *significantly* different that existing x86 stuff,

It is.  It's an entirely different CPU architecture.  Although
Intel has in fact presented quite a few new architectures over the
years (i432, i860, i960), this is the first one that might actually
replace the x86 family.

> Are we talking difference like 68K -> PowerPC and VAX->Alpha?

Yep.  Arguably even more so, since IA-64 is a VLIW architecture,
IIRC.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de