Originally posted by: Duvie
Dont get your panties in a wad....
What we see released is hardly when and if they have played with the technology. Amd's response is just as lame since most know it takes years to perfect a cpu design and bring it to market so there os response dont mean shite!!!. Chances are since INtel has had a 64 bit itanium for years they have toyed with the idea of 64-32 and maybe have even played with it...Just their marketing boys made a calculated mistake of making sure they had a 64bit to market to compete with amd's regardless if they thought it was useless to the consumer...heck half the crap they sell us is prety much useless to the consumer, or at least the consumer surfing the net and writing some word docs....
YOu know nothing about what really happens so save your disgust .....
Whether or not it is true or not most of use wouldn't know so dont waste your time....
Heck look at that moron democrat Al gore...remember he invented the internet...
Of course we know that AMD defined and took the initiative to x86-64.
Any other claim is ridiculous.
And yes, Intel have played with the idea off and on. Nothing remarkable about that. But playing is not inventing.
The original idea for any 64-32 probably dates halfway back to the stoneage. And who knows which person got it first. I doubt it was someone at Intel though. I'd rather look towards Motorola, Sun and IBM for a bet.
Intel may use their original idea for emulating IA32 (x86) on their EPIC, currently IA64 (Itanium) architecture as an excuse for some marketing bull. But frankly, that too is just ridiculous.
I mean, what about DEC then? I seem to remember there was some binary conversion tool to run x86 apps on the Alpha. I'm sure there's been other 32 to 64 bit tools and emulators as well. What about Sun, haven't they had some emulator project?
P.S. (Also, you may want to keep your political... eh, uh... stuff, to those forums, please?)