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Tracer
17th July 2004, 09:17 PM
Is the opteron considered ia64 archatecture?
Viro
17th July 2004, 10:47 PM
No its not. The IA64 is the EPIC architecture designed by Intel and is only used by the Itanium line of processors. IA64 is *NOT* backward compatible with x86, which is why AMD64 is doing much better in the marketplace.
Bana
19th July 2004, 11:03 AM

The Opteron's architechture is most commonly (correctly) referred to as x86_64.
Viro
19th July 2004, 11:06 AM
The Opteron's architechture is most commonly (correctly) referred to as x86_64.

That's debatable. Its now called AMD64 officially by AMD and IIRC, Linux still uses x86-64 just because they're too lazy to update the naming of things to become AMD64. :D