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To: Joe NYC who wrote (112711)	10/7/2000 1:07:36 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Joe - Re: "All processors since Pentium have a 64 bit wide data bus." This is not correct! The Pentium - and its derivatives & copies - have a 32 bit data bus but use an external 64 bit bus to SPEED UP the data rate by feeding it 2 32 bit words at a time. This is necessary because the processor runs internally FASTER than most standard memory access times. If you feed a 64 bit processor with only 64 bits of data - even at DDR rates of 266 MHz - you will STARVE the processor for memory - greatly limiting performance to that of 32 bit processors. Re: "Athlon is capable of addressing 43bit address space" That must be why AThWipeys are used so extensively in Server and enterprise applications ! Paul