Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 11:58:04 01/03/00
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On January 03, 2000 at 13:03:46, Bango wrote: >However; to us technophobes, it seems reasonable that a 64 bit bus can send >double the information as well a 64 bit CPU can calculate twice as fast. For >example look at the SEGA games which run on 64 bit systems, the graphics are >amazing, much nicer than a home computer. > >IMHO if a computer software program runs better on 32 bits than 16 bits it seems >reasonable that 64 bits will increase speed and quality even more. If you are trying to get drunk, you may be able to do it more quickly if the opening in the top of the beer bottle is larger. But beyond a certain point it does not matter how much larger the opening is, since the mouth of everyone except Mick Jagger is of finite and typical size. If you put a pint of beer in a salad bowl you can't drink it any faster than if you put it in a five gallon bucket. I am not a graphics programmer, but I think that the reason that the graphics app work better with a wider word size is that those things want to do a lot of calculations on wide words, and want to move a tremendous amount of data around as fast as possible. Chess programs don't benefit as much from the wide bus. bruce
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