I was recently reading Tracy Kidder’s excellent book Soul of a New Machine.

The author pointed out what a big deal the transition to 32-Bit computing was.

However, in the last 20 years, I don’t really remember a big fuss being made of most computers going to 64-bit as a de facto standard. Why is this?

  • lordofthedrones@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    XP 64 was a Server 2003 64bit edition for workstations. They had the same kernel as well. Oddball, but it did work well if you could find your drivers. I went straight to 7 64 after that.

    • Nicholas-Steel@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Right,

      • Windows XP Professional 64bit is Windows 2003 kernel & something like the XP UI. This is why you can run in to software compatibility issues.
      • Windows XP 64bit (non-professional) was only ever available for Intel Itanium and Itanium 2 CPU’s.