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??
A faster game of Solitaire? ;-) Added performance is one feature, in that more can be accomplished in a single instruction. It's becoming more difficult to improve performance, strictly by increasing clock speed. So the plan is to get more done, in each instruction. Also, the clock rollover problem gets pushed out a few billion years. However, we should have 128 bit CPUs, by the time that happnens. <g>