Constantly hearing what can't be done, and running outdated technology gets extremely tiresome over the years. The beauty (and bane) of the x86-64 architectures is that it enables us to effectively transition from 32-bit to 64-bit architecture. The bane is that some [lazy] developers don't want to make their code 64-bit clean. Additionally, 32-bit code running on a 64-bit OS on this architecture may run faster than if it were native. One thing we ran into on Alpha/NT is
On Monday 15 May 2006 4:21 pm, Orn E. Hansen wrote:
that we had a mode that allowed X86 code to run under emulation/translation
so we had a good application base. The downside was that vendors didn't
want to port their code to native Alpha so that we really never got a lot
of good native Alpha applications.
I would prefer on this net, we try to provide solutions to problems.
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Jerry Feldman