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The Battle in 64-bit Land, 2003 and Beyond

Posted by timothy on from the is-it-a-plateau dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Paul DeMone has an excellent article up at Real World Technologies on the future of 64bit computing. Find out where MIPS, HP, Intel, AMD, Sun, Fujitsu, and IBM are headed."

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  1. Who cares ... by DogIsMyCoprocessor · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    how fast the x86 64-bit processors are? They are stuck on platforms with lousy I/O. Why bother to have a 64-bit processor for anything other than a server, and if you want a server, you better get one with good I/O.

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  2. Chart with unlabeled axes piss me off. by crovira · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If they're supposed to be reporting anything, whi are the charts unlabeled?

    Is the whole thing bullshit?

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  3. Re:Heat and power by SN74S181 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes, but this is Slashdot, where everybody thinks the computing world is centered on ATX motherboards and framerates in 3D games.

    'Go hotdog, go!' says the fanboy, on his overclocked box. The case is painted black, the LEDs have all been upgraded to blue, and it has an orange racing stripe.