Posts by Paul712

1) Message boards : LHC@home Science : CERN Itanium system powers large Hadron collider (Message 11983) Posted 14 Jan 2006 by Paul712 Post: i think it is a pity intel isn't pushing the itanium more into the mainstream market but rather stick to a 20+ year old technology (x86) that have lots of caveeats (IMO) like A20 gate and lots of other things just to stay compatible... i personally would be happy to break compatibility for the sake of a new architecture without all the old junk... Hopefully now that both AMD and Intel are starting to introduce multicore processors they will be able to develop a new architecture while saving a x86 core to handle legacy applications.

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