Mladen Gogala wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Dec 2001 20:26:34 -0500, Anonymous wrote:
>
>> I found that in the Oracle9i database download, there is "IA64
>> Developer's Releases". What is "IA64"? Can I install this release on
>> Win2000?
> Yes, but only on a special version of Win2000 known as 64-bit Linux.
> Available from SuSe, Mandrake or Red Hat. IA64 is a chip formerly known as
> "Merced" and now bears an ugly name of "Itanium". Wait for McKinley which
> is the next generation of 64-bit intel chips. You see, the problem is that
> all other chips have gone 64 bit almost a decade ago and Wintel duopoly is
> still on 32 bits restricting the overall size of the address space to
> measly 4GB. ULTRA SPARC, MIPS, PPC, HPPA, Alpha, everything except Intel
> and compatibles has 64 bit registers and 64bit bus interface since early
> 90's (MIPS R3000, Ultra I, PPC since it's inception, HP-PA since 7000,
> Alpha since 1992 and 200MHZ 21064). Part of the problem is the fact that
> windows doesn't know how to do 64 bits and Microsoft doesn't want to be
> destroyed in benchmarks, benchmarking against the full 64 bit OSes like
> Linux,
> HP-UX or Solaris. That is why Intel doesn't make that chip available in
> large quantities and that is why you are not seeing 64-bit PC's.
> So, let me paraphrase the soup nazi: no IA64 for you! Next!
Damn straight ! F#@K Micro$oft. As soon as AMD gets those clawhammers out,
'click' goes my order button to SuSE.
For those interested: http://www.x86-64.org/
Viva la revolucion !
Volkmar
Received on Mon Dec 03 2001 - 05:56:54 CST
