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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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