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To be precise, Win64 for Itanium contained a binary blob provided by Intel, which worked as an x86 emulator. I think some Itaniums used it and others had hardw
by 13of40 10y ago
To be precise, Win64 for Itanium contained a binary blob provided by Intel, which worked as an x86 emulator. I think some Itaniums used it and others had hardware to run x86 code.
- mveety 10y agoYeah, thats correct. The some (most?) of the first series (merced) of itaniums had hardware to help accelerate the emulation of x86 instructions. I don't know about the later iterations of it though as I've only run OpenVMS on the later ones and not Windows.
- gsnedders 10y agoThe early Itaniums had hardware support for x86; the later ones relied on software emulation that outperformed the previous hardware support.