Windows 64-bit release date

Luis G

Luis G

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I'm still skeptic about 64bits computer architecture, memory transfers are already 64bits since the pentium 3, and there's really little use for numbers as large as 64 bit integers for common applications. Floating point computing is more intensive these days anyway.

I must admit that I've been lazy as of late to keep myself updated in the subject, I'm just talking from an engineer POV, the reasons for the jump to 64bits are beyond my current knowledge, they might be reasonable but they could be just a bunch of marketing bs.

:shrug:
 
Kawaii

Kawaii

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So, what's the difference between 64-bit crashes and regular ones? Higher-resolution bluescreens?
 
tommyj27

tommyj27

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Kawaii said:
So, what's the difference between 64-bit crashes and regular ones? Higher-resolution bluescreens?
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no, you can crash more than 4GB of addressed memory at a time.
 
Luis G

Luis G

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tommyj27 said:
no, you can crash more than 4GB of addressed memory at a time.
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Aren't all p3 and newer able to use 36bit addresses? (64GB).
 
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