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Story: Windows XP Professional x64 Edition RC1 tested
Posted by: Jure Repinc (Sunday 9 January 2005, 1:06 AM)
Couldn't agree more about Microsoft being very slow at pushing support for 64-bit AMD64 technology. I bought Athlon 64 about a year ago and at that time the only OS that worked (and it worked quit well) was Linux. I thought that iby summer of 2004 they would get their act together, but no. Half of year is over and we are still waiting and in the meantime Linux support for AMD64 is realy realy good. You can hardly even find an application that couldn't get compiled in 64-bits.
Because of all this slow development by Microsoft even our computational center at our university switched to Linux and 64-bit Mathematica, which gets quite nice speed boost over 32-bit version, it is about twice as fast.
Oh and if you still don't know Java 5.0 (JRE and JDK) is available in 64-bit AMD64 systems, for both Linux and Windows.
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Story: Windows XP Professional x64 Edition RC1 tested
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The main benefit is 64 bit math, not 64 bit addres... Anonymous
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How about wanting to edit a complet... Anonymous
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4GB of memory is not much in t... dpw
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The writer must have forgotten about the Intel Ita... Anonymous
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1. Microsoft has been working hard on x86-64... Paul Hsieh
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Microsoft is also forgetting about the 6... Anonymous
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"The writer must have forgotten about the Int... Anonymous
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The Itanium is a completely different archite... Al
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Quite right. Itanium has nothing to do w... Matt Loney
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I'm afraid the review was a non-event, half the ti... Mike Collins
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Re. Mike Collins' comment: as far as 'sitting... Charles McLellan
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So if you can get 2 times average performance and... Anonymous
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Don't download this Beta! It is not what you think... Anonymous
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1218 may be available for download to the lay... Anonymous
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XP and 2003 follow the same build number... Anonymous
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They are 64bit software out!
just look here
http:/... wiak
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Are there any NIC adapters that have 64-Bit drive... Anonymous
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Re. Mike Collins' comment: Well I agree with Mike... Gerald
