home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!rdingem
- Date: Fri, 08 Mar 96 22:38:20 GMT+1
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Distribution: world
- Subject: Re: Amiga vs. PC
- MIME-Version: 1.0
- Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
- Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
- Message-ID: <rdingem.4k6k@grafix.xs4all.nl>
- Organization: Private
-
- In a message of 06 Mar 96 Dave Haynie wrote to All:
-
- DH> Truth is, in most applications you don't need a 64-bit processor (though
- DH> I'm sure some bozo said that about 32 and 16 bit processors years ago).
- DH> The larger word size doesn't buy you any extra speed doing most personal
-
- Eh, Dave, I'm afraid I don't quite get this. I can see the
- non-usefulness concerning the 4+ GB address space, but if it makes
- a difference shoveling 32 bits of data in and outta memory at a
- time (instead of 16), why shouldn't 64 bit instead of 32 make a
- real difference?
-
- DH> computer things, since 64-bit integer values, and addressing beyond
- DH> 4GBs, aren't generally of much use.
-
- So.. Why not? You mean not useful right now, or not useful period?
- Inquiring minds want to know (at least it seems mine does ;)
-
- Regards, Ruud
- rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl
-
- -- Via Xenolink 1.985B5, XenolinkUUCP 1.1
-