If I Had a Hammer

adpowers writes: "Anandtech is running an article about their preview of AMD's Hammer. They had one machine running 32-bit Windows and the other running 64-bit Linux. The Linux machine had a 32 bit program and an identical program that was compiled for 64-bit processor support. Both processors were less than 30 days old and running without any crashes, but they weren't at full speed." We did one Hammer story a day or two ago, but there have been several more posted since then (wild guess: the NDA expired). Tom's Hardware has a story, so does Gamespot.

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RMS already made up a song about it

[phr2]

RMS made up a song years ago, in anticipation of this processor's release:

If I had a hammer,
I'd throw it in the morning,
I'd throw it in the evening,
All over this land;

I'd throw it at Loki,
I'd throw it at Fen-rir,
I'd throw it at the war between
The Gods and the Giants,
All-ll over this land...

--RMS

There may be another verse or two but I've forgotten. Anyway the headline made me think of this. I always remember these words to the song instead of the regular ones.

Re:Two transition periods?

[Tackhead]

> I'm not so sure that people will ever need even the full 64 bits, let alone 128 or more. You start getting to the point where every atom in the known universe could have its own video diary and you'd still have used only a fraction of the space.

Step 1: Build a 128-bit CPU.
Step 2: ????^H^H^H^HConvince every atom in the known universe to keep a video diary.
Step 3: Profit!!!!

When do we get funding?