> Congrats to maddog for getting his letter to the editor printed in > the most recent issue of Infoworld. A previous issue had a cover > article trumpeting "The 64-bit Apps Are Here!" and maddog pointed out > that the featured software company's operating system was probably > the LAST major OS to finally make it to 64-bits. Linux did it on > Alpha in 1995, and on SPARC and PowerPC soon after.
Well... not to toot MS's horn, but NT came out for a variety of processors, and I'm 99.9% at least one of them was 64-bit. So the magazine could have been a lot safer with saying, "The Windows x86-64 Apps Are Here!" But that doesn't roll quite as trippingly off the tongue, does it? ;-) So, regarding x86-64, yeah, MS is pretty late to the party. And since that's what runs the huge majority of desktops, that's really where it's at. -Ken (who's still miffed Apple didn't go with AMD for their x86-64 OS-X) _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss