From: jgd@cix.co.uk   
      
   In article ,   
   david+usenet@zx.net.nz (David Goodwin) wrote:   
      
   > Microsoft was still committed to doing 64bit Windows for Itanium   
   > though, and Itanium hardware wasn't ready yet. As they still had   
   > plenty of Alphas lying around, they continued working on the 64bit   
   > Alpha port internally until Itanium hardware was ready in   
   > sufficient quantities.   
      
   I used the Itanium simulator that run on x86-32, and it was /extremely/   
   slow, because of the painful nature of managing a simulated 64-bit   
   address space on a 32-bit machine. I suggested to my Intel FAE ("Field   
   Application Engineer" not "Fuel-Air Explosive"), who helped ISVs with   
   porting and was ex-DEC, that running the simulator on Alpha would be more   
   satisfactory. "Yes. But we wouldn't do that, would we?"   
      
    John   
      
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