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Re: 32-Bit is dead

Posted on 2021-09-17, 15:34

in Milliways
Quick update. The Chinese want (or rather, must) drop support for IPv4 (also 32-Bit) in the near future. Dual-Stack solutions must be phased out, also. https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/26/china_single_stack_ipv6_notice/ Not sure how this will impact new network routers, hubs and bridges and and …

Re: 32-Bit is dead

Posted on 2021-09-17, 11:38

in Milliways
You wouldn't happen to have a 2.8GHz 32bit xeon around as well? No, only 1.60GHz + 2.70GHz ones https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?id=119808 Awesome :) Looks like the 2.7 xeon is somewhat faster than the northwood, core for core. I didn't expect the P4 to hold up that well. Either way, the …

Re: 32-Bit is dead

Posted on 2021-09-16, 20:09

in Milliways
Have you run any benchmark too? I guess it's pretty much water under the bridge by now, but if they ended up with 1:1 (or thereabouts) performance I'd be a little impressed :) I had not, but you got me wondering, looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium then my CPUs are 30-Jun-2003 vintage …

Re: 32-Bit is dead

Posted on 2021-09-16, 15:57

in Milliways
I've never seen an Itanium system. The fatal weakness seems to have been its inability to run x86 software. Supposedly intel developed an emulator so you could run 32bit x86 on the ia64 platform. There is no "Supposedly" about it they did and below you can see the 32-bit CPUZ x32 running on my …

Re: 32-Bit is dead

Posted on 2021-09-16, 01:06

in Milliways
Errius wrote on 2021-09-16, 00:40: I've never seen an Itanium system. The fatal weakness seems to have been its inability to run x86 software. Supposedly intel developed an emulator so you could run 32bit x86 on the ia64 platform. Thankfully they (intel) finally saw the light and adopted amd's x86- …

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