64-bit CPU

[The Edge of the Ice]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 18:58:28 -0400 (EDT), Henry Spencer
<henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > That's more or less what you get with AMD64: there are still rename 
> > registers and the works in 64 bit mode, but there are also 8 more GPRs...
> 
> Hmm, pity it's only 8.  16 or 32 would have been nice.

Aye, but if you need a lot of registers in a desktop machine, just got
get yourself
a PowerMac G5.  32 64-bit GPRs, 32 64-bit FPRs, and 32 128-bit vector registers.

:D

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