Given the confusion in this and in a few other threads from the past I remember, I decided to create a timeline/overview of the development of IA-64 Windows based on my knowledge and research.

Here you go: http://www.windowswiki.info/2012/07/18/ ... 4-windows/

I believe you wrote "conderence" by mistake, next to April 1998 WinHEC thing..
Informative post. Nice work.

I remember that bootscreen picture, still a funny one

Wait there was a 64-bit Whistler 2296??

Apparently yes, but it's for intel itanium and not x86-64 we all know as x64.

Here is an early ia64 system that I posted some pics of a couple years ago on another forum:

http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=16722378

I don't have the machine anymore but it did run the 2003-based beta OS and 2003 Server with service packs.

oh god the itanium foam debates...

I bought one of these, but the guy on ebay never shipped it

wow, the Windows Whistler Advanced Server 64-bit boot screen in action, beta 1 screenshot is incredible. would love to have that build in my possession just for that bootscreen. and since my intel atom has 64bit support i can run this!

No, you can't. IA-64 isn't the same as AMD64...IA-64 is also terrible, not a lot of applications were designed for it...
And the person who probably designed that bootscreen just put that there as a temporary thing...

no im pretty sure i can... cpu-z lists em64t! can't wait to install this, downloading an iso now..

The x86_64 processors are hardly EPIC either...

i dont think theyre incredible epic but they certainly get the job done. my atom can do video games, video encoding, audio encoding, etc

Puzzle me this: Why are you DOWNGRADING (!!!) from an already unstable Vista build to an even more unstable build of Whistler (!?!?!?)...
My Atom can do games too (GoldSRC/Quake engine, Source/all other modern games are out of the question), video encoding...maybe a 240p vid

Yeah? Well my atom runs 386BSD! And it multiheads!

ok, time to clear something up. i am not downgrading from an unstable OS as 5840 is actually the RTM build of windows in escrow sage. it uses rtm keys supports rtm updates and has no expiration. it is also susceptible to rtm cracks, patches, etc. i had it lying around which is why i use it.
i am putting this on my temp window 8 partition until windows 8 rtms.

IA-64 is a completely different microprocessor architecture. Just like you cannot run 64bit MIPS programs on your 64bit Atom, you cannot run IA-64 programs on that one.

EM64T is NOT the same to IA-64.
To run this you either need an Itanium or an emulator.

IA-32 = 32-bit, x86, i386, ...
IA-64 = Itanium
x86-64 = 64-bit, x64, AMD64, Intel 64, x86_64, EM64T ...

IA-64 =/= x86-64

guys i tried to install it and it didnt work. =( idk why I'm gonna redownload and try again later.

removed..

well im not a computer guy, all i know is im pretty sure i can get this to work. almost done redownloading! was probably just a corrupt iso...

Have fun with your architecture mismatch.

removed for being too harsh...

not a troll, just confident. ive done more with less tbh.

I can do less with more!