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Windows Reaches 64-Bits, For OEMs

Posted by timothy on from the grand-innovations dept.

thatrez writes: "Microsoft 's Windows Advanced Server, Limited Edition, is now available for computers based on Intel's 64-bit Itanium chip. The Itanium chip supports greater amounts of system memory and offers stronger floating-point, or mathematical, capabilities than current 32-bit desktop processors. The extra memory support and the floating-point capabilities increase the performance of Web hosting, data warehousing and other applications." Now available in this case means that certain OEMs will soon be selling systems loaded with 64-bit Advanced Server, and later other manufacturers will join in. 64-bit versions of XP are expected sometime next year as well.

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  1. Re:windows is finally catching up to linux... by Whyte+Wolf · · Score: 4, Offtopic

    Not to support MS here, but...

    IIRC, didn't SGI used to have IRIX running on 64 bit systems? Didn't SGI make a move to Linux? Didn't SGI assist with some 64 bit code?

    If I do remember that right, then Linux had a leg up thanks to SGI--a company that use to have a little pocket change itself :)

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