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- From: Snowy@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de (Nicholas Stallard)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The PowerAmiga..
- Date: 11 Apr 1996 23:30:43 GMT
- Organization: Informatik, Uni Stuttgart, Germany
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- James McArthur had the following to say about Re: The PowerAmiga.. ..
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- JM>: > the snag on it is.. if I only have software that is 32 bit i can not
- JM>: > use the full potential anyway :(
- JM>: >
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- JM>: It's more or less only the marketing types who are "after these 64bit
- JM>: chips" because they can sell the impression that 64bit is more (==
- JM>: better) than 32bit. Very few people really need it or have a minor
- JM>: advantage from it.
- JM>: 64bit normally means support for 64bit integer registers and pointers
- JM>: (64bit floating point is supported by almost every current CPU anyway,
- JM>: including 68k). I don't see any app on the Amiga that could profit from
- JM>: 64bit addressing.
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- JM> I was just wondering since if the Amiga is to be aimed into different
- JM> markets
- JM> (ie network servers, unix-type systems etc) then the added power that a
- JM> 64bit system would provide would be a big bonus for the Amiga.
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- JM> Cant a 64bit system push more data down its bus then a 32bit one?
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- It can IF the whole _application_ is 64bit and the _operating-system_ is too.
- IN any other case the 64bit bus would just be oversized for the machine ..
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- JM> Also, 4Gb is no longer a big amount of memory. It will be even more
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- 4gig is no longer a big amount ?? are you kidding ? for _firms_ it may not
- be, but for people who have their machines at home i think 256megs are
- a lot ..
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- what private user could have a 4 gig ram machine at home ? what for ??
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- JM> smaller in three years time. The Amiga needs to keep ahead of this
- JM> limitation, and changing the system to 64bit would get round this.
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- nice.. let`s put in some hardware stuff, that might be supported later on
- but let us not dare put in a better processor so the users can take
- advatage of it now as it would cost money ... :-))
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- cya
- Nicholas
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