OT: re AMD
Windows AMD 64 OS details escape onto World Wide Web
Hands off our hands on labs
By INQUIRER staff: Wednesday 27 August 2003, 11:52
A MICROSOFT WORD DOCUMENT has escaped from its laboratories and found itself on the world wide web.
Dubbed "Hands on Lab", the lengthy document outlines a great many procedures when working with 32-bit and 64-bit AMD architecture.
As the article says, a 64-bit operating system supports far more physical memory than a 32-bit OS. Windows NT for the AMD64 platform supports 16 terabytes.
This, says Microsoft, has a number of benefits. More applications can support more users, each application has better peformance because it can be completely resident in the main memory, and wipes out the performance penalty of swapping pages to and from disk.
The document also claims AMD64 has benefits for businesses, including increased productivity, lower cost of ownership, and new application opportunities, particularly in graphics.
There is more, very much more, here, complete with revisions, corrections and a heap else. µ
