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Re: The Register: Mac OS X 10.3 Panther will not be a 64-bit
« on: July 09, 2003, 05:24:20 AM »
what i would like to know is what will it be doing with up to 8G of ram?? how will it address it
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Re: The Register: Mac OS X 10.3 Panther will not be a 64-bit
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2003, 05:43:36 AM »
Some of you fail to realise that this is only Mac OS ten that is still 32 bit

the apps can still be 64 bit

and who knows, mac os eleven might be the first 64 bit one
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Re: The Register: Mac OS X 10.3 Panther will not be a 64-bit
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2003, 03:40:16 AM »
PastAmigaOwner

the ppc was designed from the beggining to be 64bit
both 32bit opcodes and 64bit opcodes may be run together...
unless you can give me reasons to prove otherwise...

there are really no such thing as 32 or 64 bit 'modes' for the ppc, except for addressing

and even then, 32 bit instructions will work on a 970 with >32bit internal addressing
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