http://weknowmemes.com/2011/11/if-i-install-windows-32bit-twice-would-that-make-it-64bit/
I remember when the office I was working at was transitioning from 8 bit to 16 bit, a university professor who was an advisor to my boss told me that at his university they were already on 128 bit systems. I couldn't wrap my head around it at the time really. But now seeing how long it has taken from 16 bit to 64 bit, I can appreciate how cool it would have been to be in a university environment and get into computing. Compared to coming to it as a hobby turned into profession.
With multi-core cpus and parallel processing will there ever be a need for 128 bits?
Charles Pegge
13-01-2012, 09:09
32 bit computing seems to be the optimum, as far as I can see. Even 64 bit CPUs will spend most of their time doing 32 bit operations albeit in an extended address space.
Charles