AMD Athlon64 Systems

[DAVID BALAZIC]

Robert L Cochran <cochranb at speakeasy.net>

>I have a new question: would it be worthwhile investing in the Athlon64 
>from a programming perspective? E.g. write 64 bit programs while the 
>rest of the world is still living on 32 bits?

How about writing portable programs and let the compiler bother
with 32/64 bit differences ?
gcc already supports 64 bit longs, so you can start writing "64-bit"
programs on any x86 CPU today ( or yesterday ).


>Thanks everyone for answering my original question about the Athlon64. I 
>was surprised at the amount of response and I see even more clearly now 
>that there are a lot of folks out there like Jesse, Seth et al who are 
>right in the front lines of hardware technology.
>
>Bob
>
>
>Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Wednesday 15 October 2003 21:46, Robert L Cochran wrote:
>> 
>>>s this the 64-FX? Maybe you can share the system specs with me? But
>>>this is just a personal pipe dream of mine that I might not realize,
>>>so don't feel obligated. I would like to build such a system. Just as
>>>soon as my kids graduate from university and I've paid off the
>>>education costs :-)
>> 
>> 
>> No, it's just a Athlon64 3200+.  I'll probably be building myself a 
>> Atlhon64 Shuttle based system early next year though.  It's about time 
>> for my complete system upgrade (;
>> 
>
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