hi erik, i got 2*1GB for $30 this week. next year, >4GB will be far cheaper.
on the 64-bit stuff, wouldnt it be nice to keep up with the hardware advancement? thanks dharani On 11/15/07, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu Nov 15 18:14:18 EST 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > this question also came up in bay area plan9 meeting. would be nice to > > know the status. i think unix adopted 32-bit earlier than other OSes. > > but for 64-bit, others have gone ahead. > > > > 64 bits is neither here nor there in a vaccuum. you want 64 bits if > a) you need more than 4GB of memory, or > a) those extra registers and direct vlong really matter for performance. > otherwise it's just a lot of extra zeros. > > it's kind of silly to run 64-bit linux on a machine with <= 4GB of memory. > > - erik >
