From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Gary Britt wrote:
> What's the advantage of 64 bit operating system over 32 bit?  I remember
> back when things went from 16 bit windows to 32 bit windows that some
> people claimed it was just moving a bunch of extra zeros around without
> any real performance gains.
>
>

There's bugger all diff till you get to large memory requirements.

Do you have a large (many GB) database you want to operate on in RAM? Are
you doing nuclear simulation or rendering massive graphics files?

If not.....then there's no advatage but it an easy sell to the great
unwashed as "32 bits good then 64 must be twice as good..."

Adam

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