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- From: mullins@convex.com (Don Mullins)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Impressions of Windows NT
- Message-ID: <mullins.712346052@convex.convex.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 17:54:12 GMT
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- In comp.os.os2.misc reisert@mast.enet.dec.com (Jim -- MLO3-6/B9 -- DTN 223-5747) writes:
-
- [text deleted]
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- >>Further, since NT is 32-bit, users won't be able to address all of their
- >>memory (physical + disk swap, the R4000 is a 64 bit chip because 32-bits
- >>isn't enough address space).
-
- >Wrong. The R4000 is a 32-bit chip. NT is 32 bits now, and has hooks
- >for 64-bit support.
-
- According to the MIPS/SGI add in EETimes, the R4000 is 64-bit. Is this
- only internal - I don't know...
-
- Don
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- Don Mullins
- Systems Design Engineer
- Convex Computer Corporation
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