Francisco H Tapia
my.lists at verizon.net
Tue Jun 8 18:46:43 CDT 2004
jwcolby wrote On 6/8/2004 1:59 PM: >Rocky, > >This is a true 64 bit machine. > I don't remember if the AMD64(Opteron's) are 32 bit w/ 64bit extention hybrids internal dual cores that choose to run 32/64bit as requested. In anycase, they run natively in either platform. >64 bit software doesn't exist yet, although >Windows 64 is in beta. > well not retail windows anyways... http://www.suse.com/us/private/index.html and then there's Mandrake 10.0 >No apps yet. But they are coming. In 10 years, 64 >bit will be where 32 bit is today. Will you see any speed advantage due to >64 bit today. No, not a bit. But the proc itself holds up well to Intel's >best running 32 bit apps, and as the 64 bit stuff comes along, it will be >able to run it. Personally I wouldn't pay a premium for it, but then I >didn't! > I can't find anything currently that is 64bit based that is not SERVER only software... :| -- -Francisco