"If microsoft makes a windows for the tiny number of itaniums sold, there is no logical reason(asides from what your intel fanboy imaginary friend tells you) for m$ not to release a windows xp x86-64."
The Itanium was the step for windows to advance to 64bit specificly. Alpha in a sense died as a primary platform. Seems you forgot about the Alpha. As far as tny numbers. thats from the inquirer (lemming bible). the numbers the boasted was somthing like 30 million dollars in the first month of production as they so nicely refered to as a "quarter", when most people understand a "quarter" as 3 months. Itanium is a huge sucess, too bad you are clueless to the uses. your a blind lemming that will blow any point out of whack to suit your needs.
"And your timeframe is laughable especially considering said windows is not the next generation of windows, and its not replacing xp, it, like the ia64 windows, is a niche product for a niche market"
No, its realistic for Microsoft to re-engineer a whole new OS to overcome the current limitations with true x86 version of the OS.
"The hammers 32 bit performance should be greater than anything out when its released, and the 64 bit is only sweeter, you constantly forget this when you post your fff's, the hammer does NOT need a windowsx86-64 to succeed, it runs current window's faster than anything.*"
Purely a guess on your part about the performance as you do not know what will be available when the Hammer is released. and you have no clue how the Hammer will perform period. Pure speculation and wishfull thinking.
Consumers will not pay extra for a x86-64 CPU that is made for server and workstation applications to run just 32bit windows at home. There are no 64bit applications yet for consumers. put 2 plus 2 together and you have no market on release except for Linux servers and development.
From what I have read there is a Linux version that works on the Hammer in theory, and that the software simulator was able to produce a compiler that works.
No one was able to touch the demo at IDF, it was running a canned demo. I have very little faith in canned demo's.
The only Hammer on display was one in the socket on a non operating machine with HSF off.
Windows 32bit on one running MS word/excel loop and the other at a linux command prompt. Like I said no one was allowed to touch them. The cases were closed. It may have been smoke and mirrors from AMD during IDF like some of the people who attended the showing claimed. We know AMD did this during IDF to disrupt any momentum Intel had with developers and to capture new deveopers at the gathering. As most of the developers to show up would never consider AMD in the first place.
I was not allowed to attend the closed doors events, but there a lot of reviews published on this subject on the net.
In the end Microsoft has stated <A HREF="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/win64/32compat_76gj.asp" target="_new">x86-64 and the limitations of doing both.</A>
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