Replies to post #14903 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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I think the Prescott New Instructions will be marketed as a rival to AMD64, even though it will not allow true 64bit addressing (that would kill Itanium). Until they switch to socket 775 at 3.8ghz, they don't even have enough pins for 64bit. But whatever it ends up being, I would bet almost anything that Prescott is *not* AMD64 compatible, and therefore would not be able to run Windows64 for AMD64. Details of the instruction set have only been available for a year, and Intel would have had to design a completely new implementation in order not to violate AMD patents. Not realistic, I think.

By Dothan, I think you mean Tejas.