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Story: Windows XP Professional x64 Edition RC1 tested

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Posted by: Joe Gee (Sunday 9 January 2005, 12:27 AM)

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Mention of Apple? Why??? This is an overview of Windows XP Professional for the 64 bit extension of x86. I'm pretty certain that the latest articles on Jaguar/Panther don't mention AMD's x86-64 ... Seeing as how there's not a version of Windows for the G5, or a version of x86-64 compatible Panther why *should* there be crosstalk?

An analogy: even though both teams play a game called "football", citing the stats of Manchester United would be pointless when doing commentary about the New England Patriots ...

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Story: Windows XP Professional x64 Edition RC1 tested

  1. hardly 'set rolling by AMD and microsoft'. AMD, y... Jesus H. Christ
  2. No mention of Apple.... typical. Your Momma
  3. Mention of Apple? Why??? This is an ov... Joe Gee
  4. Couldn't agree more about Microsoft being ver... Jure Repinc
  5. The main benefit is 64 bit math, not 64 bit addres... Anonymous
  6. Anon. said "The main benefit is 64 bit math,... Tris Orendorff
  7. If you need more that 4GB of memory, the... Species8472
  8. How about wanting to edit a complet... Anonymous
  9. 4GB of memory is not much in t... dpw
  10. The writer must have forgotten about the Intel Ita... Anonymous
  11. 1. Microsoft has been working hard on x86-64... Paul Hsieh
  12. Microsoft is also forgetting about the 6... Anonymous
  13. "The writer must have forgotten about the Int... Anonymous
  14. The Itanium is a completely different archite... Al
  15. Quite right. Itanium has nothing to do w... Matt Loney
  16. I'm afraid the review was a non-event, half the ti... Mike Collins
  17. Re. Mike Collins' comment: as far as 'sitting... Charles McLellan
  18. So if you can get 2 times average performance and... Anonymous
  19. Don't download this Beta! It is not what you think... Anonymous
  20. 1218 may be available for download to the lay... Anonymous
  21. XP and 2003 follow the same build number... Anonymous
  22. They are 64bit software out! just look here http:/... wiak
  23. Are there any NIC adapters that have 64-Bit drive... Anonymous
  24. Re. Mike Collins' comment: Well I agree with Mike... Gerald

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