Why are still not at 64 bits

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Thu Feb 15 15:43:01 EST 2007


On 2/15/07, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
> On 2/15/07, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> >   So, Microsoft doesn't "support" a 64-bit address space, even today,
> > in Vista.  Hey, it's only been like, what, 14 years since the Alpha
> > came out?  Don't rush them...
>  64 bit OSen:
> Alpha OSF/1 1993
> SGI Irix 6.0 in 1994
> Alpha OpenVMS 1995
>  Sun Solaris 2.7 in 1995
> AS/400 1995
> Nintendo 64 1996
> IBM z/OS 2000
> Xbox 360 2005

  OMG, no Linux!  :-)  TRAITOR!  :-D

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-- Thomas


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