beyond x64bit

Beyond x64 ?
Will it happen any time soon ?
8bit, 16bit, 32bit, and 64bit is where we are now from the year 2005.
If we go to 128bit, 256bit will Vista come too ?
A big challenge to the folks at Inel and AMD.

Nope, 128 or 256 Bit computing won't be here anytime soon, and when the time comes, its likely to be available to Servers first. The transition from 16 bit to 32-bit took some time and even to this day we are still transitioning in some places. I am surprised there are apps still using 16 bit installers and uninstallers. Also, the need of having a 128 bit address space is not really that necessary right now with new technologies coming to processor architectures such as cores. By next year processors from Intel and AMD will be available as quad cores, so the focus right now is to optimize the software to take advantage of these cores and work in a more efficient to provide faster output and efficiency. So you can have a core that renders a movie while the other one allows you to preview it in real time. Also, address space of 64-bit allows up to 128 GBs of RAM, 8 TB for Server, so there is lots of leg room with the current 64-bit architecture. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
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Beyond x64 ?
Will it happen any time soon ?
8bit, 16bit, 32bit, and 64bit is where we are now from the year 2005.
If we go to 128bit, 256bit will Vista come too ?
A big challenge to the folks at Inel and AMD.

Arrh ! ok
But the greedy public would like their cake and eat it too, that is 4 core CPU chips and 128bit address space, really good for HD home theatre and super CAD over a network application, say Airbus where each country is making a component, like a big jigsaw puzzle, if everyone is on the same CAD maybe the individual parts will have a better chance of fitting together, and everyone can see real time what each is doing, and head off immediately any potential incompatibility problems.
It is interesting that the PC industry is going multi core chips, rather than just multiple duel core chips like many homebrew nerds do. The concept with multi chip PC’s is like a factory production line, I think, the extra chips only kick-in, start to work, when the load on the other chips reaches a preset rate, its like the hard working chips say to the stand by chips, give us a hand with this heavy graphics program, etc. Multi chip PC’s need very sophisticated OS software, probably beyond MS capability, sorry that was hitting below the belt, I am sure MS could create a multi chip OS if they wanted to.
Thanks for the very informative info Andre^
Cheers
Grumpy
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:

Nope, 128 or 256 Bit computing won't be here anytime soon, and when the time comes, its likely to be available to Servers first. The transition from 16 bit to 32-bit took some time and even to this day we are still transitioning in some places. I am surprised there are apps still using 16 bit installers and uninstallers. Also, the need of having a 128 bit address space is not really that necessary right now with new technologies coming to processor architectures such as cores. By next year processors from Intel and AMD will be available as quad cores, so the focus right now is to optimize the software to take advantage of these cores and work in a more efficient to provide faster output and efficiency. So you can have a core that renders a movie while the other one allows you to preview it in real time. Also, address space of 64-bit allows up to 128 GBs of RAM, 8 TB for Server, so there is lots of leg room with the current 64-bit architecture. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Grumpy" wrote in message Beyond x64 ?
Will it happen any time soon ?
8bit, 16bit, 32bit, and 64bit is where we are now from the year 2005.
If we go to 128bit, 256bit will Vista come too ?
A big challenge to the folks at Inel and AMD.