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Windows Reaches 64-Bits, For OEMs
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.
64 bits for the two bit OS.
Problems:
*People can post just characters thousands of lines long and fuck up the entire system.
*The moderation scheme is totally screwed. good posts are not getting moded up, bad posts are not getting modded down. Mod points just don't seem to exist. What little points there are are used to get rid of the thousand line junk character posts. The only posts going to 4 and 5 are slashdot editor buddies.
*Slashdot.org refuses connection 1/3 of the time now instead of 1/4.
*Error messages out the ass.
Don't use the new slashcode. It really sucks bad.
THE ERRORS ARE EVEN FUCKED: look...
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* Browser type
* User ID/Nickname or AC
* What steps caused this error
* Whether or not you know your ISP to be using a proxy or some sort of service that gives you an IP that others are using simultaneously.
* How many posts to this form you successfully submitted during the day
* Please choose 'formkeys' for the category!
Thank you.
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FUUUUUUCKED!!!
It took several years from Linux and other Open Source operating systems to reach 64-bit maturity on Sparc and Alpha platforms.
Does Microsoft really think that their closed source, in-house 64-bit code will really be able to perform the miracle and really be production level code?
I'll believe it when I see it. Too bad the gullible PHBs will be swarming all over this to run "more efficiently" their databases...
offers stronger floating-point, or mathematical, capabilities
NO, NO, NO!!! Early on in the development of the 64-bit platform, there was a huge disagreement between the Intel & HP engineers over floating-point mechanics. The Intel camp wanted floating point calculations in hardware, but the HP people insisted on floating point calculations in software. HP won the argument when Intel was confronted with the fiasco of the Pentium floating point recall.
Itanium performs floating point operations in SOFTWARE, not in hardware. Its strength is the integer manipulations needed for database searching and sorting, not the floating point operations of interest to graphics artists and gamers.
 
So you should'nt use....it unless you need it?
You need to post on Slashdot more.
ha ha ha. you're a fag. and one of those dumbasses who say "what about a beowulf cluster."
There are some big drawbacks to the Itanium platform in general :
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1. Runs really hot
2. Uses a lot of juice
3. Usually requires a large form factor to house all of the fans it needs
You can get a better bang / buck ratio with a Sun box for example.
I've used Itanium boxes w/ XP beta (some of my code is on the CD), and I didn't notice a huge performance increase (that may be because of WoW).
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