Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3349 mails)

["Carlos F. Lange" <carlos.lange@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 30 May 2005 08:55, Andre Truter wrote:
> On 5/30/05, Carlos F. Lange <carlos.lange@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > From Dell's description of the powerEdge 1850:
> > High performance for today and the future  - Dual Xeon processors
> > with EM64T support, teamed with DDR-2 Memory and PCI Express
> > deliver outstanding performance for today's 32-bit applications
> > as well as tomorrow's 64-bit applications.
> > 
> > So, yes, you got a 64 bit machine.
> > 
> 
> Does this not mean the the box *can* support 64-bit CPU's (in future)
> and that you can then run 64-bit apps (tomorrow), but today it is
> 32-bit?
> 
> The wording kind of sounds like you would be able to run 64-bit apps
> on it in the future.
> 
> Sounds like a lot of marketing mumbo-jumbo.

No. It is MSWindows perspective of the world. Through their distorted glasses
(or windows) 64 bit software is still in the future...

CFL