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- From: sjb5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (STACY JOHN BEHRENS)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Impressions of Windows NT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.032017.63256@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 03:20:17 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
- Lines: 33
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- In article <kDZmoB2w165w@comtch.spk.wa.us>, mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us (Matthew St
- aben) writes:
- >dhinds@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds) writes:
- >
- >> In article <9207281653.AA18391@enet-gw.pa.dec.com> reisert@mast.enet.dec.com
- >> >
- >> >>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.
- >>
- >> Actually, the R4000 is a 64-bit chip.
- >>
- >> - David Hinds
- >> dhinds@allegro.stanford.edu
- >
- >
- >So? Who's right?
- >
- >
- >mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us _or_ mstaben@visual.spk.wa.us
- >
- >
- The MIPS R4000 *IS* a 64 bit chip. It is one of the very few 64-bit
- microprocessors on the general market right now. Of course this will change,
- but the chip is 64-bits.
-
- Stacy John Behrens
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