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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. fuckin article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I hate article which are spread over multiple pages and where no print-all-pages version is available. go fuck yourself! i'll never ever read this fuckin article!

  2. 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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  3. Implications by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Do you think that if they were using 64-bit chips on the Space Shuttle it would have landed safely?

    The preliminary reports say that environment regulating systems were the first to fail. Could this have been prevented if they had been based on IA64 instead of the 8-bit chip arrays that they currently (formerly) used?

  4. 64bit cpus have been available for almost 15 years by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Intel had one called i860. Currently we're held up by Microsoft waiting to implement windows64. Microsoft wants to preserve their monopoly on the desktop and leverage their power into server space. Whoever Microsoft backs will probably benefit and that's likely to be their buddies Intel.

  5. Re:Offtopic, but needs to be said by bursch-X · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The worst spacial incident in recorded history just occurred and you fucktard have nothing better to do than to post all over slashdot.

    So much about YOUR priorities

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  6. 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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  7. 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.