15 Apr
2005
15 Apr
'05
07:13
On Thursday 14 April 2005 03:02 am, 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!
Why? Are they any faster? (given the same clock)... I remember well the move from 16 bit software to 32 bit software was in many situations a big let down, because it was no faster, and often slower, since every memory fetch had to be 32bits whether you needed it or not, as did each instruction. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen