On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 06:49:04PM -0700, David Fox wrote: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Stan Hoeppner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > A $600 full length ISA card and a cable to the 8088 socket quadrupled my > > system performance in about 15 minutes. Best upgrade I ever made. > > My first computer was in the early 80s and it had 16K of RAM (TRS 80). > > I think 64 bit debian will likely support more ram than any systems > integrator will be able to put in a box. Of course, don't come and > quote me on that in 2013 sometime :). I've known people to tell me > that they'd never need more than a 20 meg HD, too :). > > Personally, I don't see a need to go 128 bit on a main cpu unless you > have a desire to count and enumerate every elementary particle in the > known universe, without a) running out of RAM, or b) spilling the > content into a multiregister add/adc pair. :)
You don't. It seems others do: http://redmondmag.com/articles/2009/10/08/rumor-windows-8-will-be-128-bit.aspx The PR departments has strange hardware requirements. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [email protected] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [email protected] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
