: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009...8-windows-9.ars
Full Version: Windows 8 will support 128-bit
Ars Technica has a fine post about it : http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009...8-windows-9.ars
: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009...8-windows-9.ars
Whoa. That's ridiculous. From Wikipedia:
I think maybe Windows 8 should be 64 bit only, and then maybe do Windows 9 at 128 bit. For the time being though, lets get 7 here and running.
AJ
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128-bit processors could become prevalent when 16 exbibytes of addressable memory is no longer enough (128-bit processors would allow memory addressing for 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 bytes (~340.3 undecillion bytes or 281,474,976,710,656 yobibytes ). However, physical limits make such large amounts of memory currently impossible, given that amount greatly exceeds the total data stored on Earth.
I think maybe Windows 8 should be 64 bit only, and then maybe do Windows 9 at 128 bit. For the time being though, lets get 7 here and running.
AJ
Microsoft will have to do a lot of planning if they go ahead with 128-bit. The Vista example is scary. We all remember how the poor souls on Vista 64-bit were hauling and screaming for software but nothing was compatible i the beginning. And stupid Flash still don't have a version for 64-bit.
thats good news.
more bit means more precise math. which in turn contributes especially to increase performance in graphics.
more bit means more precise math. which in turn contributes especially to increase performance in graphics.
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