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.... Fugger,
.... Here's the URL and/or link if I can get it to work, haven't done a link in Tom's in years, see if I remember how.
.... I thought images and links were banned years ago here, but I saw one yesterday so it must just be images that were banned.
.. Link:
......... <a href=http://athena.tweakers.net/reviews.dsp?Document=191>iTanic ia32 Benchmarks</a>
.. URL:
.. http://athena.tweakers.net/reviews.dsp?Document=191
.... Not sure why intel bothered wiring ia32 capability onto the core/die of the Merced-iTanic 667 if its only going to perform like a P 75 on 32bit Windows apps. It would have been cheaper, simpler, and easier to just add a Celeron 600 or Duron 800 riser card to the machine using the iTanic CPU if and only if x86-32 capability was needed and it would have provided much better performance.
.... iTanic's other 'native' tongue is the new, proprietary ia64 which is incompatible with ia32, WindowsXX(XX), x86-32, x86-16, x86-64, Alpha's Tru64, IBM's UNIX, etc.... or any other existing code unless its ported over to it so the iTanic can slowly run it.
.... By the time the 1997 Merced-iTanium is finally launched in 2001, or whenever, if ever, there may be ia64 code apps. waiting for it. Or maybe everyone will have tired of waiting by then and simply gone with an AMD 'Hammer that runs extremely fast on all new and existing x86-64-32-16bit code that we are already using.
.... Transmeta prolly could have made a faster ia64 & ia32 CPU by now.
............................................................................................................. -Buzz+
.... Here's the URL and/or link if I can get it to work, haven't done a link in Tom's in years, see if I remember how.
.... I thought images and links were banned years ago here, but I saw one yesterday so it must just be images that were banned.
.. Link:
......... <a href=http://athena.tweakers.net/reviews.dsp?Document=191>iTanic ia32 Benchmarks</a>
.. URL:
.. http://athena.tweakers.net/reviews.dsp?Document=191
.... Not sure why intel bothered wiring ia32 capability onto the core/die of the Merced-iTanic 667 if its only going to perform like a P 75 on 32bit Windows apps. It would have been cheaper, simpler, and easier to just add a Celeron 600 or Duron 800 riser card to the machine using the iTanic CPU if and only if x86-32 capability was needed and it would have provided much better performance.
.... iTanic's other 'native' tongue is the new, proprietary ia64 which is incompatible with ia32, WindowsXX(XX), x86-32, x86-16, x86-64, Alpha's Tru64, IBM's UNIX, etc.... or any other existing code unless its ported over to it so the iTanic can slowly run it.
.... By the time the 1997 Merced-iTanium is finally launched in 2001, or whenever, if ever, there may be ia64 code apps. waiting for it. Or maybe everyone will have tired of waiting by then and simply gone with an AMD 'Hammer that runs extremely fast on all new and existing x86-64-32-16bit code that we are already using.
.... Transmeta prolly could have made a faster ia64 & ia32 CPU by now.
............................................................................................................. -Buzz+