Patrick McSwain - New 32bit & 64bit Ubuntu 10.04 user as of 5/1/2010.
Networking new Linux computers into my existing Wintel-based small technical business.
I was a DOS programmer in a previous life. No UNIX/Linux experience at all.
But it's always hard to say something can't be done.
Remember the 80286 CPU? That was a 16-bit processor. In theory it could not address more than 64k. But it could actually use 640k for program area by paging. Segmented Addressing?
Could somebody come up with BIOS that could permit a 32bit CPU chip to use paging? Or use a HDD past 2TB? This I can't say.
Patrick McSwain - New 32bit & 64bit Ubuntu 10.04 user as of 5/1/2010.
Networking new Linux computers into my existing Wintel-based small technical business.
I was a DOS programmer in a previous life. No UNIX/Linux experience at all.
You guys may or may not have seen this.
http://www.tuxradar.com/content/ubun...bit-benchmarks
Patrick McSwain - New 32bit & 64bit Ubuntu 10.04 user as of 5/1/2010.
Networking new Linux computers into my existing Wintel-based small technical business.
I was a DOS programmer in a previous life. No UNIX/Linux experience at all.
I've been running 64-bit Linux for about a year now (still on 9.04), and the only thing I could see that may stop new users is crummy Flash support. 64-bit 9.04 and I think 10.04 both us 32-bit Flash with a wrapper to work on 64-bit, and this causes LOTS of problems. 64-bit Flash for Linux is out there, but it's still Alpha... though I find it much more stable than using 32-bit Flash w/ wrapper on 64-bit Linux.
Outside of this, I don't know what other problems new users would face since most everything I've seen in the repositories is out there for both 32-bit and 64-bit Linux.
Sam
True, but incomplete. My first x86 machine had an 80286. True, the data bus was 16bit, but, if memory serves correctly, the addresses were 24 bit. Have a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80286
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