Flow My Thoughts, The IT Professor Said

Everyone's Wild For 64 Bits

AMD and Intel Ship 64-bit Chips: http://eletters.wnn.ziffdavis.com/zd/cts?d=75-28-1-1-618817-1171-1

Red Hat, Dell and Others Support Intel's 64-bit Madison: http://eletters.wnn.ziffdavis.com/zd/cts?d=75-28-1-1-618817-1171-1

Does the G5 Really Matter: http://eletters.wnn.ziffdavis.com/zd/cts?d=75-28-1-1-618817-1174-1

The whole bandwagon towards 64-bit computing seems to have sprouted afterburners. In part this results from the ease with which Linux/UNIX variants can support 64-bit processors [they've been doing it for years], and Apple's venture results from the fact that OS X has BSD UNIX roots. Given all that, Intel simply could not afford to hold back from the fray, and the more progress and support that is given to hardware and software developments relating to this, the sooner we all will have supercomputers on our desktops.

Then the question to answer will be: "What do we need these for?" -- which, when you think about it, is really a pleasant position in which to be.