Re: amd 64

webmaster1usa.com wrote:
> Besides, if you look at the processors, they are being
sold as 64-bit
> computers, but are actually two 32-bit computers in
tandem.  Macintosh
> may be different and maybe a few others, but Intel and
AMD, as far as I
> know, don't have true 64-bit yet.  1USA was an AMD
Partner until
> recently, it was all marketing info that was useless as
I remember.
> I'm not into processors like I needed to be a few years
ago... because I
> found out that it really makes no difference.  Either
it runs or it doesn't.

Actually, that's not true at all, the x64 instruction set is
*true*
64bit.  It's not "two 32bit processors running in
tandem".  True that is
has 32bit compatibility mode, but that doesn't mean it's
32bit at all.

http://en.wikiped
ia.org/wiki/X86-64

Applications really only need to be complied 64bit if they
want to take
advantage of higher memory space or longer integers, etc.,
other than
that, the application really doesn't gain much by being
"64bit".

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