On 04-20-97, GREG HOLLAND said to GREG BATTES:
GH>The Pentium and Pentium Pro CPUs are 64-bit processors (handling 64-bits
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.
Let's be specific here - the P5 and P6 processors ACCESS MEMORY 64 bits at a
time.  They are only 32 bit instruction sets.  The extra memory access width
is used to keep the multiple instruction pipelines full, not to provide 64 
it
instructions.
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