2009/7/7 John Martz <[email protected]>: > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Liam Proven<[email protected]> wrote: >> AMD are really struggling now. The Sledgehammer µarch was stunning and >> killed Itanium; it moved the x86 world onto 64-bit, although 99% of >> machines still run 32-bit S/W, just like for a decade, 99% of the >> 32-bit 386 machines ran 16-bit S/W. > > I assume you're using 99% in a "wave your hands" sort of way. [...] > None of this will immediately change the fact that a majority of the > x86-64 systems out there will *still* be running in 32-bit mode. I'm > just saying that a lot more than 1% of them will move to 64-bit mode.
All right, it's a fair cop. Perhaps 90-95% might have been a more reasonable guesstimate. Although I would note that OS X86 is essentially a 32-bit OS with extensions to provide the facility to run 64-bit apps, which is actually quite a sensible way of doing things... > It took a long time to build up momentum, but I think from this point > on the switch over is only going to move faster. Probably, yes. If only to allow personal computers to simply and easily access >4GB of RAM. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: [email protected] • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: [email protected] Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: [email protected] • ICQ: 73187508 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
