one more thing... most people will run windows on it anyway, so they only difference you are going to notice it that your machine will simply crash faster;-)
still 20 years old technology...
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Sure, intel might comeout with a great new 64bit chip. All i wonder though is: why in the world are they still supporting 20 year old 80x86 technology in their hardware? Would not it be easier to complately redesign the CPU? To make it RISC (which has been proven to work faster and be easier to program at the same time)? I am just tierd of hearing stuff like: 64 bit extensions to the registers, so lets see, not we have EEAX (64bit), its lower half is EAX (32bit), its lower half is AX (16bit), and AX in the end is split into AH and AL (8bit each). I am a ower of 2 Alpha Digital workstations (dont confuse that with Alpha PC), and even though they are only 200MHz each, they still seam to run Tru64 Unix with X and Open Desktop really fast. I believe it is time to drop the 80x86 compatibility and move onto the better RISC. Yes, it would be a big step... all the software would need to be rewriten, or at least recompiled;-) but would not it be worth it? Just look at the G4 PowerMac, doesn't that thing kick ass!!! Less MHz yet much faster.
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one more thing... most people will run windows on it anyway, so they only difference you are going to notice it that your machine will simply crash faster;-)
Sure, intel might comeout with a great new 64bit chip. All i wonder though is: why in the world are they still supporting 20 year old 80x86 technology in their hardware? Would not it be easier to complately redesign the CPU? To make it RISC (which has been proven to work faster and be easier to program at the same time)? I am just tierd of hearing stuff like: 64 bit extensions to the registers, so lets see, not we have EEAX (64bit), its lower half is EAX (32bit), its lower half is AX (16bit), and AX in the end is split into AH and AL (8bit each). I am a ower of 2 Alpha Digital workstations (dont confuse that with Alpha PC), and even though they are only 200MHz each, they still seam to run Tru64 Unix with X and Open Desktop really fast. I believe it is time to drop the 80x86 compatibility and move onto the better RISC. Yes, it would be a big step... all the software would need to be rewriten, or at least recompiled;-) but would not it be worth it? Just look at the G4 PowerMac, doesn't that thing kick ass!!! Less MHz yet much faster.