It's some sort of virtualisation. Last I heard, it would actually be
slightly slower than a p3 at the same mhz for some ops. I once read
something saying you would be able to virtualise complete ia32 environments
like v86 virtualises the no86s of the past. Don't know how accurate it is
now tho.
-Josh G
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Sent: Saturday, August 28, 1999 5:33 PM
Subject: Freemware on IA64
> AIUI Intel's new IA64 architecture has support for running old
> IA32 programs. Perhaps we should target this as well as
> conventional IA32 architectures in order to provide a migration
> path from common IA32 bit OSen to Linux on the IA64 chips.
>
> Does anyone know whether IA64 supports virtualising IA32 code
> or does IA32 code have direct hardware access?
>
