Re: how many win64?

Does this means that we will have two version of PCs from now on? One with
IA64 and the other with AMD64?
Where can I read more about this two architectures?

What processors are compatible with AMD64 ( I think it would be Atlon 64)
and what is compatible with IA64? Is Pentium 4 IA64 compatible? What about
Pentium M?

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"Calvin Guan" <cguan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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To add what Don said:

IA64 compilers try to add fixups whenever it can for unaligned data
access. It results in big performance penalty. I've observed that 7
instruction bundles (21 instructions) were added to fix-up an 8-byte
unaligned access. AMD64 compiler won't do that.

Unaligned access in Itanium will BSOD while AMD64 won't. This is a big
difference between 2 platforms while you're playing with kernel code. Low
level kernel debug is very very different too.

Anyway, don't spend too much time and effort on Itanium. It doesn't worth.

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Calvin Guan, Windows DDK MVP
Software Engineer, NT Driver
ATI Technologies Inc. www.ati.com

"Don Burn" <burn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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They have different instruction sets, so require you compile the driver
with a different compiler. For a well written driver, there should be no
difference, once it works on one architecture, it should work on the
next. Of course supporting the different architectures is a good test of
how well written your driver is!


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"ma" <ma@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for your reply.

What is the difference between these two architectures?

Is the window on these two platform works differently? (From the device
driver point of view)



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"Don Burn" <burn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yes, Windows supports the extended x86 architecture for 64 bits and
Itanium. This is just like in the past when there were multiple 32-bit
versions (x86, Mips, Power PC, Alpha).


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"ma" <ma@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello,

I searched around to find information about windows 64 and came
across some definitions which struck me that there is more than one
window 64. Am I correct?



Here is a section that I found in a web site:



Win64 AMD64/EM64T Unicode (Windows XP/2003 x64 Edition)

Win64 IA64 Unicode (Windows XP/2003 64-bit Edition)





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