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Windows 8 – 128bit Rumours Were Fake? « Windows 8 — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:33:03 +0000

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By: Omoronovo

Omoronovo — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:05:45 +0000

Finally someone else who realises how insane an idea this is. I have never replied to any of these “128bit” posts before because I was always under the impression that they were complex troll posts of some kind.

You have rekindled my faith that some people on here actually know WTF they are talking about. Thank you.

By: Osvaldo Doederlein

Osvaldo Doederlein — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:50:12 +0000

NO 128-but CPUs – in Wikipedia's words, “There are currently no mainstream general-purpose processors built to operate on 128-bit integers or addresses, though a number of processors do operate on 128-bit data.” The Intel Core2 Duo chip in my laptop has 128-bit SIMD registers (for SSE stuff), and top-end video cards have up to 2×512-bit data bus and also wide SIMD cores. But *none* of these qualify as “128 bit CPUs” or “128 bit computers”. Call me again when you have a motherboard&CPU that can handle 2^128 bytes of memory – I don't even demand capacity for that much physical memory, virtual capacity will do fine. Most current 64-bit computers have a much smaller number of address lines in the chipset so they can't be configured with 2^64 bytes of physical RAM; but the OS can manage all this virtual space if you have a big enough pagefile.

BTW, 128 bits are something as big, that you won't be able to buy any system, even supercomputer, with this much DISK space, let alone memory. And this limit will NOT be surpassed in the next decades or even millenia. Check http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/128_bit_stor…

By: Omoronovo

Omoronovo — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:05:45 +0000

You have rekindled my faith that some people on here actually know WTF they are talking about. Thank you.

By: Osvaldo Doederlein

Osvaldo Doederlein — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:50:12 +0000

By: matt_patt

matt_patt — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:41:05 +0000

there are 128 bit computers. my motherboard supports it and i built my computer this past January.

By: biff

biff — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:32:53 +0000

there are 128-bit cpus, google it, and robert morgan http://www.linkedin.com/in/msftrobertmorgan

By: windows 8 128 bit rumours | Windows 8 News

windows 8 128 bit rumours | Windows 8 News — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:47:22 +0000

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By: Osvaldo Doederlein

Osvaldo Doederlein — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:24:37 +0000

Get a clue. There are no 128-bit CPUs.

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Windows8 – Rumors and Does Robert Morgan Exist? | Windows 7 News — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:59:58 +0000

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