Windows 8 To Be 128 Bit?

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  1. JUD

    JUD MDL Member

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    #21 JUD, Oct 9, 2009
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  2. secr9tos

    secr9tos MDL Addicted

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    #22 secr9tos, Oct 9, 2009
    So this Windows 8 IA-128 version is intended for servers and not for "home/private/etc"-use, am I right?
     
  3. Hazar

    Hazar MDL Guru

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    #23 Hazar, Oct 9, 2009
  4. annieannie

    annieannie MDL Novice

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    #24 annieannie, Oct 9, 2009
    well, I think Sun Solaris is already a 128 bit system.
     
  5. Carel

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    #25 Carel, Oct 15, 2009
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    Taliking about 128-bit... It wont be any faster than 64-bit, because a 32-bit / x86 architecture can only assign up to 4294967296 bytes. Which is 4GB (In reality only 3.25Gb can be used). 64-bit means that more than 1000-terabytes of RAM can be asigned to the system. There'll be absoulutely no use in going higher than 64-bit, it's NOT faster than 32-bit, it can only asign more RAM (You'll only notice a difference if you're going to use more than 3.25Gb of RAM). 128-bit - Heck, it'l be able to asign like 1000000000000 terabytes of RAM. No, I'll stick to 64-bit, it sounds fancy, but... Just imaging if we need to update our drivers every second day, i'tll suck.
     
  6. Carel

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    #26 Carel, Oct 15, 2009
    Bits

    Please note that BITS does not imply the same thing. If a GFX card states that the bus supports up to 128-bit - it has absolutely nothing to do with the bits of a processor. If a DSP states that it can handle 8-bits audio, then don't associate it with "a PC's sound should be better because it's 24-bit". You can't compare the data bus & the memory addressing & the processing bits with each other! It has nothing to do with each other! Processing bits & architecture bits are diffeent. If windows states it's 64-bit, it has to to with memory adressing, not Processing Power! Please make sure when referring to "Bits" you are referring to Processing, Memory adressing or Data Bus's bits!
     
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