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Tracer
2004-07-17, 02:17 PM CDT
Is the opteron considered ia64 archatecture?
Viro
2004-07-17, 03:47 PM CDT
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
2004-07-19, 04:03 AM CDT
The Opteron's architechture is most commonly (correctly) referred to as x86_64.
Viro
2004-07-19, 04:06 AM CDT
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