Hi all
I was told today (by a sales rep) that all CPUs on sale nowadays are 64
bit - is this true?
I'm thinking of building / buying a new box as a sort of Christmas present
from me to me (!). I'm thinking of giving another distro a try and thought
while I'm building a sort of "trial and error" box, I might give 64 bit
distros a go and had Fedora in mind. [I'm something of an Ubuntu fan given
I started with Slackware - though IMHO Slack now is unrecognisable from a
few years ago - but I don't want this thread drifting into a distro war].
Anyway, I perused the Novatech barebones list and noticed that only the
cheapest kit mentions that it's 64 bit. A quick wikipedia [1] revealed
that (it seems) if it's a 64 bit CPU, then it'll have "64" in its title.
I freely admit I've not kept pace (in any respect!) with modern CPUs. The
trend now seems to be 2-4 CPUs on one chip but I don't know whether if you
have 2 32-bit CPUs on one chip (for example) then that chip is considered 64
bit.
Can someone enlighten me? I was highly skeptical when she told me "all
chips are 64 bit" but if she's right I'll ring back tomorrow and buy one of
them.
Cheers
Rob
[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit#Current_64-bit_microprocessor_architectures
