Replies to post #24266 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[jhalada]

Klaus,

I never bumped into an emulation without any issues within the last 20 years. Did you?

Yes, it will be interesting to see someone test drive it outside the lab.

I might add I would expect issues for WoW-32 for the very same reasons; although less and easier to kink out, because the complexity-level is way lower here.

But this is only a software emulation, running software design for one API under another API. Hardware can execute the instructions natively. If MSFT cared enough, they could write Wow 64/16 in addition to Wow 64/32.

Joe

[subzero]

"might add I would expect issues for WoW-32 for the very same reasons; although less and easier to kink out, because the complexity-level is way lower here. "

Sure. That is why Microsft is about 18 months behind schedule in delivering WOW32 and the AMD64 bit Windows OS.