17 Oct
2003
17 Oct
'03
3:30 p.m.
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 01:37, Benno Senoner wrote:
- incompatibilities between Itanium and AMD 64: if
you bought MS Office
for AMD64 it will not run on Itanium and viceversa.
Users will say "hey, it's always windows why is this incompatible ?"
AMD is risking too because users usually stick with the strongest one
thus it could be that when Itanium arrives on the
desktop it will eclipse the AMD64 because of these Windows
incompatibility problems.
AMD64 architecture is performs very well with old 32-bit stuff, while
Itanium sucks on this field. Athlon64 runs old 32-bit Counter Strike OK,
Itanium doesn't... ;)
AMD64 is also getting heavy support from motherboard manufacturers while
Itanium support is absent.
Time will show, but I think AMD64 as a great platform and also makes
transition from old 32-bit apps to new 64-bit apps smooth.
--
Jussi Laako <jussi.laako(a)pp.inet.fi>