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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."

18 of 364 comments (clear)

  1. 64 bits? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny


    when we get to 1mbit is when things start to get interesting, until then..............

    1. Re:64 bits? by einhverfr · · Score: 2, Funny

      when we get to 1mbit is when things start to get interesting, until then..............

      Man I can't wait until I have enough RAM to use a 1mbit pointer ;-)

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    2. Re:64 bits? by Squarewav · · Score: 2, Funny

      reminds me of friend who dint want to buy a N64 couse "has the same amount of ram as a C64" I couldnt convince him otherwise

    3. Re:64 bits? by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 2, Funny

      ONE MILLIBIT? How on Earth would THAT work?

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    4. Re:64 bits? by Fulcrum+of+Evil · · Score: 2, Funny

      Man I can't wait until I have enough RAM to use a 1mbit pointer ;-)

      You can use it right now. Only thing is that everything past bit 32 will be 0. If you want to have so much ram as to require a 1mbit pointer, you'll be waiting awhile. There are something like 10^64 atoms in the universe.

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  2. Getting the AMD/Intel fight outta the way by trmj · · Score: 5, Funny

    Intel will release a 64 bit processor first, but 2 months later AMD will come out with a 61 bit processor that runs twice as fast. Don't ask me how, or even why speed is relevant to the computing power, but they will do it.

    Then, 6 years later, China will come out with their own.

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  3. 64 bits? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hah! My Commodore 64 has 64 BYTES! Hah!

  4. It amazes me... by march · · Score: 3, Funny

    It amazes me that this discussion is even taking place.

    I would have thought that by now, we'd be discussing 128bit or 512bit computers. I mean, I've been working on Dec Alpha chips for 8 years now. A nice, fast, 64 bit processor. (Tru64 kinda sux though).

    8 years in computer time is like 800 years in human time. What's up? 64bit processors should be old new now...

    1. Re:It amazes me... by Tomster · · Score: 4, Funny
      You're not likely to see 128- or 512-bit general-purpose computers in your lifetime, I'm afraid.

      With advances in medicine, regeneration, nanotech, and cybernetic replacements/augmentations, I fully expect to live at least 200 years. Did you take that into consideration when making your prediction? :)

      -Thomas

    2. Re:It amazes me... by f97tosc · · Score: 4, Funny

      With advances in medicine, regeneration, nanotech, and cybernetic replacements/augmentations, I fully expect to live at least 200 years. Did you take that into consideration when making your prediction? :)

      What you fail to realize that these replacement/ augumentations will not be possible until research labs have access to 128- or 512- bit general purpose computers.

      Tor

  5. In other news... by Mr_Tulip · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft is eagerly awaiting 64 bit processors, as they will "greatly decrease the incidence of Integer overflow exceptions, and memory overwrites"

  6. 0.13 mm? by dido · · Score: 4, Funny

    Despite shipping 0.13 mm x86 devices for about a year, Intel's first 0.13 mm IA64 MPU, code named Madison, won't be introduced for another 5 or 6 months. The EV79, a 0.13 mm shrink of the 0.18 mm EV7, will be even later, shipping in about a year.

    Holy cow... I didn't know microprocessor features were still so freaking huge! Methinks the author needs to remember that there is an HTML entity readily available as µ. :) Unfortunately it seems slashdot is stripping out most of my entities so we can't see it here . 0.13 mm is 130 microns, which is roughly where IC technology was in the mid- to late-1980's if I'm not mistaken. That can't possibly be right. If use of the entity is out of the question (just as it seems to be on ./), maybe they could have said 0.000013 mm or even spelled out the word "micron" right out.

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  7. Re:Who cares ... by Zork+the+Almighty · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wanted one, but it was too RISCy at the time.

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  8. Re:Implications by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah, because what the STS program really needed was more RISC.

  9. As for me... by skermit · · Score: 1, Funny

    Atari was on the right track with their Jaguar, and I still think these new-fandangled 64-bits don't hold an ounce of water against my Nintendo (Ultra) 64!

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  10. And... by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 4, Funny
    ...everyone will forget that Sun has done this decades ago.

  11. Re:Units? by dynoman7 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Am I the only one who likes seeing UNITS on things?

    No. No. Me too. I did some looking around and found that the x axis is in WhatsAGiggers and the y is in GammaLammaBingBongs. Hope that helps.

    AMD ROX! DUKE SUCKS!

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  12. Re:Floating point by Fefe · · Score: 4, Funny

    I recompiled it with EPIC, of course.

    The x86 emulation mode is so bad, nobody in their right mind will use it. IIRC it is slower than a 200 MHz Pentium Pro.