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Re: "word"

From Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.programming
Subject Re: "word"
Date 2012-09-06 01:09 +0100
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BartC wrote:

>> Hmm. That's a tough one. Can you name a computer with a 64 bit word? Most
>> of the 64 bit machines I know have a 32 bit word
> 
> So what makes those 64-bit machines rather than 32?

Other than marketing, the size of virtual address pointers.  One of the main 
selling points of the AMD64 platform was how it didn't limited the virtual 
address space to 4GB.


Rui Maciel

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"word" bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2012-09-05 06:38 -0700
  Re: "word" "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2012-09-05 15:55 +0200
  Re: "word" Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-09-05 07:02 -0700
    Re: "word" Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-09-05 09:34 -0700
      Re: "word" Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-09-05 10:56 -0700
    Re: "word" Anonymous <nobody@remailer.paranoici.org> - 2012-09-05 18:57 +0000
      Re: "word" Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-09-05 23:23 +0100
      Re: "word" "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-09-05 23:43 +0100
        Re: "word" Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-09-06 01:09 +0100
          Re: "word" Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-09-05 22:03 -0500
          Re: "word" "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-09-06 11:02 +0100
            Re: "word" Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-09-06 11:31 -0500
      Re: "word" Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-09-05 21:38 -0500
      Re: "word" Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com> - 2012-09-10 05:40 -0700
    Re: "word" rossum <rossum48@coldmail.com> - 2012-09-06 11:30 +0100
  Re: "word" Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-09-05 21:40 +0100
    Re: "word" Jongware <jongware@no-spam.plz> - 2012-09-07 16:26 +0200
      Re: "word" Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com> - 2012-09-11 03:34 -0700

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