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Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Wed 7th Oct 2009 19:15 UTC, submitted by JayDee

Microsoft has been thinking about Windows 8 for a while now even through the production of Windows 7. Some information has been gathered by our friends over at Ars, and all of this said information points to possible 128-bit versions of Windows 8 and definite 128-bit versions of Windows 9. Update: Other technophiles better-versed than I in this whole 64/128-bit business pointed out that it must be for the filesystem (such as ZFS described in this article) rather than the processor and memory scheme.

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No such processor

by 3rdalbum on Thu 8th Oct 2009 01:42 UTC

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2008-05-26

There is no IA-128. How can you compile for a processor that isn't even on the drawing board?

This just confirms what I've been saying all along: Microsoft's developers are taking illegal substances.

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RE: No such processor

by jgagnon on Thu 8th Oct 2009 11:29 in reply to "No such processor"

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2008-06-24

There is no publicly available IA-128 but you can sure bet that Intel has been working on that one since AMD one-upped them with the 64-bit instruction set.

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