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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!rdingem
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 96 21:59:47 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: Amiga vs. PC
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- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
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- In a message of 11 Mar 96 Dave Haynie wrote to All:
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- >> 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?
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- DH> It does. But you don't need a 64-bit CPU to shovel 64-bit quantities in
- DH> and out of memory. The fully 32-bit PowerPC chips (PPC602, PPC603, and
- DH> PPC604) do this just fine, by supporting a 64-bit data bus. So does the
- DH> Pentium. As I explained in the article to which you're replying, the
- DH> data bus size has nothing to with "intrinsic bit size" of a CPU. To be a
- DH> 64-bit CPU, you have 64-bit registers.
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- This I get ;)
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- DH> So I'm still claiming 64-bit isn't necessary, today, in a PC. My guess
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- The operative word being 'today', I guess. Well, OK... Thanks for the
- explanation.
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- Regards, Ruud
- rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl
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