Re: Gnumeric 0.67

["Jerry Feldman-2" <user=4@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:12:15 -0500 
Jarod Wilson <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> That's not quite correct. While ia64 isn't backwards-compatible with 
> i386 like x86_64 is, the ia64 architecture provides an i386 
> compatibility layer, and has done so for ages. In earlier ia64 systems, 
> the i386 emulation is done via hardware, but recent systems implement it 
> in software, because its actually faster than the old hardware method 
> was. Red Hat actually does provide some stuff on isos for setting up and 
> running i386 code on an ia64 system, which supposedly winds up being 
> pretty similar to running i386 code on x86_64, but I've never actually 
> had need to do so myself. 

yes, you are quite correct about that.   

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