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Re: 64-bit

From: Carl Galgano <cgalgano2@ediconsulting.com>

> A few months ago I was at a clients and in the reception/waiting area
> was a PC Magazine that boasted on it's cover "64 bit computing.... The
> next GIH thing".  It was dated something like Oct 2001.  It is amazing
> that the "mainstream" computing press is so amazed with a technology
> that we have been used to for 5-6 years.  But it is not the hardware
> that makes 64 bit possible, it is the OS.  OS is so superior to M$, too
> bad IBM does not believe it.

IBM's first 64-bit computer, the 7030, was delivered to "Los Alamos
Scientific Laboratory" on April 16th, 1961, so 64-bit computing goes
way back.

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