Linked by Bas v.d. Wiel on Thu 18th Dec 2003 05:12 UTC
A couple of weeks ago TerraSoft released preliminary 64-bit ISO's of their flagship product, Yellow Dog Linux 3.0.1 (YDL), especially for owners of Apple's new G5 machines. I was pining for a chance to get an open source OS running in 64-bit mode so I quickly downloaded the three ISO's.
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>> >> what applications do you run that needs a 64-bit processor?
ie, for your video card. you can run 32bit colors on a 8bit cpu.
>>E.g., 24-bit (16 million colors) only allows for 256 shades >>of grey (and less of other colors). You need more bits for a >>cinema-like experience.
actually that's just for graphic table
64bit cpus allow for example more memory to be addressed (32bits are 2G, and a bit more with various tricks, 64bits should be in teras or something)
also it allows to process a 64bit unit in one pass, instead of segmenting it, stuff like that