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Sa3atsky said:"Using an emulation layer, you can run 32-bit applications on Windows XP 64-Bit Edition. However, such applications run significantly slower on the 64-bit system than on the 32-bit system, because emulation requires additional resources."
Sa3atsky said:Heres one more:
32-bit installer programs cannot load and register 64-bit DLLs.
Maaan even installers have to be altered, I dont think the software community (official and unofficial) arent gonna be accepting this 64bit "revolution" anytime soon...
"Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for technical workstations."
"Windows XP 64-Bit Edition supports the latest class of Intel Itanium processors designed for users who need to create and manipulate large amounts of complex data. The high performance of the Intel Itanium processor is targeted toward high-end workstation applications such as large database management, data mining, computer-aided engineering, digital content creation, and scientific and engineering computing"
You are correct. There is a version for itaniums which do not support 32 bit operations at all and there is a version for athlon64/opteron that DOES support 32 bit operations. The 64 bit version of windows for the athlon 64s/opterons should have the same requirements as current Windows XP.EvilerNine said:I might be wrong but isn't Windows XP 64-bit Edition and Windows XP 64-bit Edition for 64-bit Extended Systems two different animals? One for the Itaniums and the other for Opterons and Athlon 64?