GREG  HOLLAND said to Greg  Battes on 04-20-97 06:43: 
GH>Greg,
GB> Incidentally, are there any notable shortcomings that 
  > the PC has when it comes to the hardware itself? My 
  > understanding is that you are running in 32 bits. Did 
  > you have to buy special graphics cards, and are there 
  > enough busses for all the stuff one might want to install, 
  > for example for video? 
GH>The Pentium and Pentium Pro CPUs are 64-bit processors (handling 64-bit
GH>of data at a time) and Windows NT is a 32-bit OS. Seems like the OS is 
GH>almost always a step behind the hardware, but I'm not sure why that is.
Perhaps because the Pentium and P-PRO are NOT 64-bit processors... they use 
64-bit memory IO, but internally, are as 32-bit as all Intel processors 
since the 1986 386.
Intel and HP are working jointly on a true 64-bit processor... but it's not 
here yet!
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