🚀 go-pugleaf

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.
>
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>Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
>Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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MIPS has had 64 bit processors for years and NT already runs on them.
I have no idea if the code is optimized for Mips MIPS R4700.


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