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Windows 8 Release Expected in 2012

by ___Calv_Dee___ on 2/29/12, 3:57 AM with 2 comments

• by astrodust on 2/29/12, 4:47 AM

  Wait, what? 128-bit architecture? I'm not sure what the utility of this would be, as 64-bit ints are huge and floating point is already a special case.

  With 16-byte pointers, your application would be SUV-sized no matter what you do.

  What kind of things need 128-bits to represent? Is this a case of representing 4-up 32-bit ints or something of the sort, that a 128-bit CPU would be basically a 4-way vector one inherently?

• by darshansoma on 2/29/12, 4:52 AM

  article from 2009?