Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
> AMD "Virus" is no AMD virus at all
> FUD the second time in two months
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> | Well, we hope that our readers will be smart enough to see through the
> | stupid bomb?s cloud to the truth below: the viruses might affect Windows
> | AMD64 version, but not because of any chip-level AMD weakness, rather
> | because the virus is attacking Windows 64-bit x86 version, just not
> | the Itanium IA64 version.
Um...
Does the author understand perhaps, that the itanium is a completely
different architecture? That nothing compiled for amd64 would run on it?
In the same way anything compiled for PPC wouldn't run on intel
architecture, or anything compiled for Z80 wouldn't run on 6502?
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