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Re: [SLE] 9.3 Ships!
- From: Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:03:36 +0200
- Message-id: <200504142203.36453.andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Thursday 14 April 2005 18:58, Susemail wrote:
> On Thursday 14 April 2005 04:02, James Knott wrote:
> > Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > > And now I get to do more shopping, this time for new hardware. I'm
> > > going to install 9.3 onto a new disk. I'm thinking of getting my first
> > > SATA drive (I've been a SCSI guy. I like the 10,000 RPM, Ultra160
> > > drives--they're fast!).
> >
> > Don't forget a 64 bit CPU!
>
> Aside from the larger address space-what good is a 64 bit CPU??
64 bit data manipulation makes a big difference if you have software that can
handle it
I recently got my first AMD64, and I absolutely love it. Everything is just so
nice and fast
By the way, aren't the Macs 64 bit too?
> On Thursday 14 April 2005 04:02, James Knott wrote:
> > Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > > And now I get to do more shopping, this time for new hardware. I'm
> > > going to install 9.3 onto a new disk. I'm thinking of getting my first
> > > SATA drive (I've been a SCSI guy. I like the 10,000 RPM, Ultra160
> > > drives--they're fast!).
> >
> > Don't forget a 64 bit CPU!
>
> Aside from the larger address space-what good is a 64 bit CPU??
64 bit data manipulation makes a big difference if you have software that can
handle it
I recently got my first AMD64, and I absolutely love it. Everything is just so
nice and fast
By the way, aren't the Macs 64 bit too?
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