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From: Lawrence Kirby
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 1996 00:00

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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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Date: 1996/07/04
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