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AMD's 64-bit Plot

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the how-many-acres-to-the-bit dept.

ceebABC writes "In a long interview with eWEEK, AMD's CEO Hector de Ruiz talks about struggling to compete with Intel, but more importantly about their upcoming 64-bit processors. He says that AMD's 64-bit chips will be comparatively priced to the 32-bit ones, and backwards compatible. He also thinks there will be a market for desktop 64-bit systems. Skip to the last page for the most interesting stuff."

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  1. Re:What desktop users want to know.. by BlackHawk-666 · · Score: 0, Troll

    But don't bother trying to do this with Windows, since it can only handle 4GB of RAM, unless you run Datacentre edition.

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  2. Re:32-bit compatible = a temporary half-solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Of course, those are only C++ problems. Real men use ASM.

    But seriously, what would the ASM problems be? As far as I can see, there wouldn't really be any since ASM is nice and low level. No pointers except for the pointer regsiters. No ints or chars, just big data areas.

    ASM is so much easier to use than C++. I don't understand why people don't use it. As long as you keep track of everything, it is no more likely to kill your system than C++, and it is so much more elegant when used properly.