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Linus Torvalds, ha postato nella giornata di ieri su un newsgroup dedicato al kernel di Linux alcune condiserazioni su x86-64 e la tecnologia Yamhill di Intel. Il grande capo "pinguino inside" spera nell'adozione di uno standard a 64bit comune per evitare di distruggere l'unico punto di forza di x86, ovvero la compatibilità.

A POSTING BY Linus Torvalds on the LINUX KERNEL newsgroup yesterday has him praying that Intel will adopt its secret "Yamhill" project and turn to the ways of X86-64 righteousness. Torvalds, who had a key part to play in Transmeta's fortunes at startup, says in the post that Linux developers are "generally praying that AMD's X86-64 succeeds in the market."

That, he says, would force Intel to make Yamhill its standard 64-bit platform and allow for improvements in the Linux kernel. But Torvalds reckons that making everything truly 64-bit might well be years away.