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#5 Re: Using proprietary i386 apps on an amd64 system Posted by neofpo (200.185.xx.xx) on Fri 15 Jun 2007 at 14:36 I know about Itanium, however, AMD's value was to keep one more time backward compatibility (where it was possible) with old code. AMD64 is almost a superset of ia32. It is is nice to know that if one gives up all backward compatibility stuff on x86/amd64, the arch would gain about 20% speed / power efficiency directly. The Intel guy who said that pointed that nowadays speed is achieved by increasing speed / multicore tech rather than optimizing existing tech. I guess if we had to put gas on computers, people would concern about efficiency. Electricity seems to just be there, we do not need to deal with nuclear garbage over our feet... I believe NOW is the time to the software development industry see that open source / standards is THE only way to achieve better results cheaper. Even Microsoft is opening several projects on SourceForge. Let me stop here, it is off topic enough the way it is.

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