15 Apr
2005
15 Apr
'05
01:18
On Thursday 14 April 2005 16:13, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Thursday 14 April 2005 12:58 pm, Susemail wrote:
Aside from the larger address space-what good is a 64 bit CPU??
There are many benefits to 64-bits. (Note that I have been a 64-bit user since 1994 including Linux). First, as you mentioned a larger linear address space. The x86 architecture was segmented.
I was under the impression, perhaps misguided, that more recent x86 CPUs don't depend on the early segmented model. [snip]