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does the Itanium chip have a 32 bit mode

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William Pribble
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‎11-03-2009 07:45 AM
‎11-03-2009 07:45 AM
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does the Itanium chip have a 32 bit mode

Or does it only run 64 bit applications?

In particular on a rx6600 running Integrity VM3.5 on a VM Guest running HP-UX 11.23

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Bill
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Johnson Punniyalingam
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‎11-03-2009 08:07 AM
‎11-03-2009 08:07 AM
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Re: does the Itanium chip have a 32 bit mode

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Hi Bill,

Check below document :)

http://h20338.www2.hp.com/enterprise/downloads/HP-UX_Binary_Compatibility.pdf
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Steven E. Protter
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‎11-03-2009 08:27 AM
‎11-03-2009 08:27 AM

Re: does the Itanium chip have a 32 bit mode

Shalom,

32 bit mode?

Not really.

The HP-UX OS has 32 bit application support.

What can you run on an Itanium Server?

64 bit HP-UX 11.23
64 bit HP-UX 11.31

You can with vpar software virtualize 64 bit Linux or 64 Bit Windows.

You can not to my knowledge install a 32 bit Linux or 32 Bit Windows distribution.

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Torsten.
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‎11-03-2009 08:34 AM
‎11-03-2009 08:34 AM

Re: does the Itanium chip have a 32 bit mode

>> You can with vpar software virtualize 64 bit Linux or 64 Bit Windows.


This is wrong.

It's not vPars, its HPVM (Integrity virtual machines).

Hope this helps!
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Steven E. Protter
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‎11-03-2009 08:38 AM
‎11-03-2009 08:38 AM

Re: does the Itanium chip have a 32 bit mode

No points.

vpars. Meant to say hpvm.

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Dennis Handly
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‎11-03-2009 03:39 PM
‎11-03-2009 03:39 PM

Re: does the Itanium chip have a 32 bit mode

>does the Itanium chip have a 32 bit mode?

No, it always runs in 64 bit mode. Initial versions had x86 code emulation.

>Or does it only run 64 bit applications?

Through software, Aries, it runs both 32 and 64 bit PA-RISC applications.

Through compiler and kernel magic, it runs 32 bit IPF applications.
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