Author: David Blackman
Date: 01:35:22 01/18/01
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On January 17, 2001 at 23:21:19, Dann Corbit wrote: >The 64 bit address space and 64 bit native operations are unique to those two >(and a smattering of other chips that nobody will ever care about). He means Itanium and Alpha. AMD is planning a 64 bit chip called Sledgehammer. It isn't here yet, but it is quite possible they will deliver in quantity about the same time Intel do. Also quite possible they will be more succesful in the market. Wait and see. There are quite a few other 64 bit chips out there already. They aren't in large numbers in desktop machines, but they are in extremely large numbers elsewhere, such as game consoles, high end embedded aplications etc. Many of these are derivatives of the MIPS 4000 series. It's kind of sad that PCs make do with 32 bits while cheap and nasty smaller computers get 64. That's mostly because all the crappy software that PC users insist on is too hard to port to a different architecture.
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