If you like architecture check out:
Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach by Hennessey and Patterson
It's a great book... but you'll find it a very dry read ;)
- Sebastian
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Ben Johnson wrote:
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 06:06:09PM +0200, Damon Jacobsen wrote:
I had thought that 64 bit processing was more than simply more addressable
RAM. Am I wrong?
unless I'm crazy this would have to mean, at a minimum, 64 bit registers
as well. just this much means there are probably huge changes in the
cpu architecture... such as possibly flat memory addressing instead of
paging ... and stuff like that. stuff like... getting rid of memory
segmentation, which I learned is universally thought to be a huge pain
in the ass. (perhaps you can you can tell I don't know very well what
I'm talking about. But that's what I've said and I'm sticking by it! ;)
- Ben
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