OT: AMD 64

Thermodyne · #1 May 13th, 2004, 12:51 PM

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Originally posted by dogscoff:

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Win XP 64 is months off, and apps will be a while after that.

What about other OSes? I would imagine that the open source community (ie Linux) might react a bit quicker than Microsoft.

Yep, you can do Nix64 now, driver support is an issue still, and there are not enough apps to bother with it. Talk is that some FPS games will be the first apps to ship in 64bit.

rdouglass · #2 May 13th, 2004, 03:32 PM

IIRC that was AMD's (supposed) big advantage over Intel's 64 bit processor; the software. AMD's allowed you to use current 32 bit S/W whereas Intel's required total rewrite of software.

Just my $.02

EDIT: Does anyone remember all the issues when mainstream OS's went from 16 bit to 32 bit?

[ May 13, 2004, 14:34: Message edited by: rdouglass ]

Baron Munchausen · #3 May 13th, 2004, 03:35 PM

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Originally posted by dogscoff:

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Win XP 64 is months off, and apps will be a while after that.

What about other OSes? I would imagine that the open source community (ie Linux) might react a bit quicker than Microsoft.

Not only is Linux 64-bit ready, and has been for years... Linux is 128-bit ready! Yes, you could compile and run it on a 128-bit processor if they are available (I presume some exotic workstations exist with this sort of processor).