Xeon

[Hewitt Tech]

To be a bit more specific, Intel calls their extended 64 bit technology
EM64T. So you need a Xeon processor with the EM64T extensions to have a 64
bit capable processor. Like the AMD 64/Opteron processors, the extended Xeon
is expected to be 100% IA32 compatible.

-Alex


http://www.intel.com/business/bss/products/server/64-bit/index.htm?iid=hwd_64bitpage+64bit_rc2&

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From: "Hewitt Tech" <hewitt_tech at comcast.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: Xeon


> The IA64 architecture refers to the Itanium processors. The IA32
> architecture would cover most Xeon processors although there is a 64 bit
> extended model that has an almost identical instruction set to the AMD-64
> family of processors.
>
> -Alex
>
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