"Clark Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > On 20 Jul 2006 11:30:02 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: > > >Leif Rundberget (as quoted by Joel C. Ewing) wrote: > > > >| Be careful with like terms between the PC(intel) world and the mainframe > >| world. When someone says they have a 64-bit Intel server (Intel, > >| Solaris, AMD, etc.), it does not mean that the server can access an > >| address 64-bits long, the 64-bits refers to the width of the bus. So it > >| can transfer 64-bits in parallel. > > Since there are 64 bit versions of Windows, Linux and various flavors > of Unix I find this hard to believe. > > >> rest snipped >
I remember to have read something about it when looking for hardware for a new PC. This is what Intel says: http://www.intel.com/technology/64bitextensions/ Intel(r) Extended Memory 64 TechnologyΦ (Intel(r) EM64T) enables 64-bit computing on the server/workstation and desktop platforms when combined with supporting software. Intel EM64T improves performance by allowing the system to address more than 4 GB of both virtual and physical memory. Intel EM64T provides support for: 64-bit flat virtual address space 64-bit pointers 64-bit wide general purpose registers 64-bit integer support Up to 1 terabyte (TB) of platform address space It looks like a real, full 64-bit architecture. Kees. ********************************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. ********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
