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On Thu, 04 Jul 96 12:21:31 GMT, Lawrence Kirby
<fred@genesis.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>In article <Pine.GSO.3.93.960703095517.29458E-100000@iglou>
>           venkat@vccs.com "VCCS" writes:
>
>>On 2 Jul 1996, Cihangir Akyol wrote:
>>
>>> In the anticipation that eventually most software will
>>> be written for 32 bit operating systems (NT), I have decided
>>> to pay the extra few hundred dollars and go for a Pentium Pro,
>>> instead of the Pentium.
>>> 
>>> Having made this decision however, the prospect of everyone
>>> not moving to the 32 bit operating system is still nagging me.
>>
>>
>>32bit is now the defacto standard.
>>
>>The major vendors have already started 64bit versions of their s.w
>
>For what platform? Even the PPro doesn't have 64 bit integer registers.

DEC Alpha for one and then there's the HP/INTEL partnership on the 786
and Mickeysoft's announcement of a 64-bit port of NT.  There's a big
push from commercial users to break the 4GB memory limit on 32-bit
processors so that they can keep large databases memory resident for
credit card validation, etc.  I don't expect to need more than 4GB of
memory at home for at least another year or two :-)

--rick