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Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 4:08 pm

Beats me what they code-name it

. Seems to me that Longhorn was originally just a newer 32-bit OS, no? I really don't know.

64-bit Windows, whatever the end up calling it, is what will really cause the dominoes to start falling. 64-bit Linux or other OS just won't have the same impact.

Greg

LoRez · Post by **LoRez** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 9:27 pm

KrunietZ wrote:Interesting thread
Lunch Money wrote:As soon as the 64-bit OS hits retail desktops, it'll be golden.

And what would that OS be for the pc? is it the longhorn thingy we are waiting for?

Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bi ... fault.mspx

And it exists now and you can actually download it and install it and use it. It's not longhorn or anything...It's 64 bit Windows XP.

LoRez · Post by **LoRez** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 9:28 pm

Lunch Money wrote:Beats me what they code-name it . Seems to me that Longhorn was originally just a newer 32-bit OS, no? I really don't know. 64-bit Windows, whatever the end up calling it, is what will really cause the dominoes to start falling. 64-bit Linux or other OS just won't have the same impact.

Greg

Guys...dominoes are beginning to fall as we speak...

popsych · Post by **popsych** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 6:21 pm

Guys i really don't file like getting my calculator out and doing some math but 32 bit floating point is moooooooooooore than enough to push any rounding errors way below the inaudible region.
Do we really need 64 bit ? Oh and btw,from the little assembly coding i did ages ago, i remember that at least (maybe earlier) Pentium III has instructions for 64 bit operands, and all the SSE functions refer to 64 bit arithmetic. Someone correct me if i'm wrong

LoRez · Post by **LoRez** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 10:11 pm

This has nothing to do with rounding errors. It's about system performance and efficiency.

popsych · Post by **popsych** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 6:30 am

The initial talk was about internal resolution. Later it turned into a performance gain by using 64 bit thread.

I'm really looking forward to 64 computing but at the present moment current hardware with longhorn or xp64 won't be the 600% tremendous increase everyone's thinking about

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 7:11 am

Who's everyone? I doubt I'll even upgrade for a couple years.

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