> wow tons of info, and you actually answered the question with no quantum > rambling ;-) thanks for the input, i guess i will go 64 bit on my next > upgrade, since thats where we are headed,
If you find a P4 with stepping of E0 or later, it too has the 64-bit extensions built-in. And can be used as an x86_64. But there may be issues. I've not seen any glowing reports of Intel's efforts in this space. The new P4s may be better than their previous attempts. Still, the P4 has maxed out speed wise, thus the only new selling features is L3 cache or dual-core - the other thing AMD has had planned for some time and the VIA has decided to do. Though IBM ships multi-core cpus now as does Fijitsu/Sun with Ultra-sparc cpus. > i remember reading something > that either user space or system space? couldnt do 64bit, and it was > stuck at 32bit but i cant remember where i saw it. from what your saying > it will all be 64bit which is very nice. again thanks for the info. > Yes, it's all 64-bit. It's also possible, with work doing a chroot environment, to run a full 32-bit only user environment. And those things that don't work in 64-bit environment - binary plugins/apps, will eventually get there later this year when Mictosoft gets off its collective butt and ships WinXP64. Put another way - folks like Real have little current incentive when their main customer base remains in 32-bit mode. Bob -- - -- [email protected] mailing list
