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To: Joe NYC who wrote (94315)	2/20/2000 3:13:00 AM
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64-bit Win2k beta for Q2 as Wintel reforms around Itanium Microsoft said that it would deliver a beta of the 64-bit version in Q2 of this year, and reiterated that it expects to ship the finished version at the same time as Intel's Itanium goes out the door. When did MSFT deliver beta of w2k? I think beta 2 arrived in late 1998. I don't know about beta 1. The article goes on to explain how it should be different this time. We will see. MSFT can always deliver the 32 bit x86 code with only the memory allocation / management rewritten and declare they are done. Is the 64 bit processor going to derive any benefit from the fact it is 64 bit, or is the main benefit purely ability to address more memory. I guess a 64 bit integer may be of some in a very rare instances (which could always be simulated with some penalty), but nothing else really comes my mind. I am not sure how closely Merced parallels x86's segment-offset memory addressing, but breaking a 4GB segment barrier can be of some importance to the database servers. Joe theregister.co.uk

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