Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265504AbTFWMco (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2003 08:32:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265782AbTFWMco (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2003 08:32:44 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:13264 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265504AbTFWMcn (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2003 08:32:43 -0400 Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM] From: Alan Cox To: Jesse Pollard Cc: "Henning P. " Schmiedehausen , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <03062307163100.31982@tabby> References: <063301c32c47$ddc792d0$3f00a8c0@witbe> <20030621143416.31978fc2.skraw@ithnet.com> <03062307163100.31982@tabby> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1056372257.13528.31.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 23 Jun 2003 13:44:18 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 640 Lines: 24 On Llu, 2003-06-23 at 13:16, Jesse Pollard wrote: > And IA32 applications run on IA64 without recompiling???? Yes > Or worse, a 286 app runs on IA64... Yes > How about a 186... Yes Although at a certain point you can switch to software emulation because you'll trivially outperform the "real" hardware. Also you'll notice one of the big wins about AMD x86-64 is running x86-32 apps well. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/