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Dennis Walker <[log in to unmask]>
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Dennis Walker <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:16:48 -0600
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HP aready has PARisc Emulation for HPUX, call ARIES see
http://www.intel.com/design/itanium/tranhp/
What would be essentially needed is the same as the did for Classic to
Spectrum, write the essential low level stuff natively, then emulater
dynamically links this in with this to actually run you old binarys.


"Johnson, Tracy" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> I try to avoid judgements on IA life-styles.
>
> Tracy Johnson
> MSI Schaevitz Sensors
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Ken Hirsch [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> >Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 3:15 PM
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] A possible roadmap to Open MPE
> >
> >
> >Gavin Scott wrote:
> >
> >That's not the only problem.  IA-32 is little-endian, which
> >means a painful
> >amount of byte-swapping would go on.  That would always make
> >it really slow.
> >
> >The IA64 is bi-endian, I'm pretty sure, which would help a lot.
>
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