masked.slacker@gmail.com <masked.slacker@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can run the 32 bit version of SLack on that processor (i think), as
> I run it on my AMD64.

I wouldn't advise it. The Itanium IS hardware compatible with the
Pentium, but it is a hardware EMULATION, not native mode.
So essentially you'll get a SLOW Pentium instead of an Itanium system.

And about "rolling your own", the version of gcc in Slackware probably
doesn't support the IA-64 as a target. Didn't test it, though, haven't
got an Itanium available.

For application programs I would be using Intel's own C-compiler
(a non-commercial version can be downloaded from their website),
but for kernel (cq libc libraries) I don't know if that will do it.
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