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On 10/29/06 16:55, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 01:22:49PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote:
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> As someone who is migrating from a 486 with 32 MB ram to an AMD Athlon
> with 1 GB ram, I'll be interested in this discussion. In my
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 01:22:49PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> I have been reading about the benefits of 64 bit computing on the web. In
> the old days I used to run some molecular dynamics calculations on a DEC
> Alpha with a 64 bit chip in it and the developer there did get a definite
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 08:09:37AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 10/29/06 07:22, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> > Dear Debian folks,
> > [snip]
> > Let's suppose that money was no object and we managed in some
> > technical feat to construct a comp
Paul E Condon writes:
> Such a thing is useful to think about for very large databases. It is
> good for performance to have the whole database in RAM all the time.
It also can be useful to be able to map your entire database into memory
even if it won't all fit in RAM. 64 bit addresses permit th
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 01:22:49PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Dear Debian folks,
>
> I have been reading about the benefits of 64 bit computing on the web. In
> the old days I used to run some molecular dynamics calculations on a DEC
> Alpha with a 64 bit chip in it and the developer th
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 01:22:49PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Dear Debian folks,
>
> I have been reading about the benefits of 64 bit computing on the web. In
>
> OK, here's the dumb question:
>
> Let's suppose that money was no object and we managed in some technical
> feat to constr
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On 10/29/06 07:22, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Dear Debian folks,
>
> I have been reading about the benefits of 64 bit computing on the
> web. In the old days I used to run some molecular dynamics
> calculations on a DEC Alpha with a 64 bit chip in it
Dear Debian folks,
I have been reading about the benefits of 64 bit computing on the web. In
the old days I used to run some molecular dynamics calculations on a DEC
Alpha with a 64 bit chip in it and the developer there did get a definite
boost from it.
I have been reading the discussion o
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