15 Apr
2005
15 Apr
'05
01:41
On Thursday 14 April 2005 21:31, James Knott wrote:
Sid Boyce wrote:
Susemail wrote: [snip]
Aside from the larger address space-what good is a 64 bit CPU??
Strange, I can't remember anyone asking a similar question when CPU's went from 8 --> 16-bit or 16-bit --> 32-bit, perhaps it was too obvious back then.
It was. The hardware really limited things back then. Remember memory mapping etc?
You mean bank switching ? MMUs (Memory Mapping Units) are part of modern processsors last time I looked.