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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. 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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  2. 64 bits? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hah! My Commodore 64 has 64 BYTES! Hah!

  3. 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"