Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 28th Jun 2004 23:16 UTC
As Futurama's Professor Hubert Farnsworth usually says: "Good news everyone...". Apple introduced today its upcoming 64-bit enhanced Tiger operating system due in the first quarter of 2005. Click in for our report from today's WWDC opening which includes 18 pictures of the event.
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that is completely wrong as apples clearly states on the link you posted
you used the word "full" for 64-bit support
And he would be right.
"Tiger’s new 64-bit features enable developers to address massive amount of virtual memory for command-line applications, server applications and computation engines while continuing to fully support 32-bit applications"
"features" does not equate with "full"
it appears to be a bit of an enhancement of what panther now does as well.
Tiger is fully 64-bit.
IF you had only bothered to read further.
"Tiger ships with 64-bit ready Xcode development tools, so you can take full advantage of the Tiger’s enhanced 64-bit capabilities right out of the box. Tiger’s new 64-bit pointers enable individual processes to access massive amounts of virtual memory. The enhanced kernel, plus a 64-bit version of libSystem, let command-line programs, background daemons and network services directly manipulate up to 16 exabytes of virtual memory. That’s enough to address all the physical memory on an Xserve G5… or a cluster of millions of them.
Tiger’s LP64 model for 64-bit pointers means that developers can easily port code written for other 64-bit UNIX systems. LP64 support in Tiger provides for 64-bit long, long long and void* as well as 32-bit int data types."
If that is not full 64-bit support. What is according to you?