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To: Scumbria who wrote (120883)	7/25/2000 10:41:04 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (3) of 1572340

Scumbria, Re: Sledgehammer My guess is that the first version of Sledgehammer will ba a conventional design, not the 2 CPU + Northbridge intergrated on 1 die. Re: 64 bit software (nonsense) I don't think there will be a lot of software recompiled for 64 bit target. But even the support for it in the OS is a step forward. I don't think there are many applications that require > 4GB flat memory space. The applications may need >4GB, but not in one chunk. Supoort for this is already built into Windows. 386 didn't eliminate segment / offset architecture, only increased size of these registers to 32 bits. So even 386 can address more than 4 GB of memory using segment / offset. Some CPUs already support > 4GB this way. I am pretty sure Xeon does, I don't know about Athlon. Joe

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