of course you know that they aren't really 1's and 0's, but a voltage representation of the two. a 0 would be a low voltage and a 1 would be a high voltage relative to each other. so for the computer to process a 1 it would be more of a drain since it has to provide more power to get all that voltage passed down the pipe. if the 0 was represented by 0 volts then you can see why processesing a 1 would be harder to do.
hope that clears things up for everyone:o) i was an electronics tech in the navy before i became a geek
36bit????? don't you mean 32bit!!! Why do you feel that intel is backing itself into a corner? When the chip advances, so does the software that runs on it. We need to move forward. Not only does the x86 architecture need to go away, but so does the ISA bus. It is slowing dying but look at all the newer busses that hardware run on. They aren't ISA compatable, they are new, more advanced systems. Don't make a new chip architechture backward compatible, that would only make matters worse. Move up!
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you mean like bill gates?
unless they just havent released it yet. wasnt professional 9.1 out before you could get personal 9.1?
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i already tried this morning and signed up there and everything, went to the download page and timed out. guess i'll try tomorrow
eudora 1.5.4?????? you do know they are up to version 6.1 now right?
of course you know that they aren't really 1's and 0's, but a voltage representation of the two. a 0 would be a low voltage and a 1 would be a high voltage relative to each other. so for the computer to process a 1 it would be more of a drain since it has to provide more power to get all that voltage passed down the pipe. if the 0 was represented by 0 volts then you can see why processesing a 1 would be harder to do.
:o) i was an electronics tech in the navy before i became a geek
hope that clears things up for everyone
36bit????? don't you mean 32bit!!! Why do you feel that intel is backing itself into a corner? When the chip advances, so does the software that runs on it. We need to move forward. Not only does the x86 architecture need to go away, but so does the ISA bus. It is slowing dying but look at all the newer busses that hardware run on. They aren't ISA compatable, they are new, more advanced systems. Don't make a new chip architechture backward compatible, that would only make matters worse. Move up!