From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 27 8:29:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peorth.iteration.net (peorth.iteration.net [208.190.180.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00CCD37B422 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 08:29:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keichii@peorth.iteration.net) Received: by peorth.iteration.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1C394594B5; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:29:43 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:29:42 -0500 From: "Michael C . Wu" To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Jeremiah Gowdy Subject: Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium Message-ID: <20010427102942.E88522@peorth.iteration.net> Reply-To: "Michael C . Wu" Mail-Followup-To: "Michael C . Wu" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Jeremiah Gowdy References: <200104171836.LAA06378@akira.lanfear.com> <000001c0c777$f9529b30$215778d8@cx443070b> <20010426175906.B88522@peorth.iteration.net> <20010426185127.A38407@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010426185127.A38407@dragon.nuxi.com>; from TrimYourCc@NUXI.com on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 06:51:27PM -0700 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5025 F691 F943 8128 48A8 5025 77CE 29C5 8FA1 2E20 X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x8FA12E20 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 06:51:27PM -0700, David O'Brien scribbled: | On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 05:59:06PM -0500, Michael C . Wu wrote: | > IIRC, KA-64 does not even have an emulator yet. | | Are you making a distinction between emulator and simulator? Such that | SimNow! and VirtuHammer don't fall into what you are speaking of? Yes, in some parts of the industry, we distinguish it based upon how much of the processor it emulates/simulates. One is considered to only do parts of the CPU, the other being what you have right now. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@iteration.net | keichii@freebsd.org | | http://iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message