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Re: 64-bit computers?
- Subject: Re: 64-bit computers?
- From: ballweb@PEAK.ORG (Brian Ballweber)
- Date: 1996/10/29
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Public Electronic Access to Knowledge,Corvallis,US
- References: <5557ss$c4c@news.ysu.edu> <555gfh$56i@darla.visi.com>
Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com) wrote:
: Adalbert Goertz <be404@yfn.ysu.edu> wrote:
: >Are there any 64-bit computers? Which??
: Yes. The DEC Alpha microprocessor series are 64 bit processors, the
: R4000 and up from Mips (used in Silicon Graphics workstations and the
: R4600 is used in the Nintendo Ultra 64 game console). I'd expect that
: certain SPARC variants have 64 bit processors, but it's been a while
: since I bothered to get all the specs on their processors.
HAL Computers (http://www.hal.com) produces a line of 64-bit SPARC
machines. A bit more than a N64, they run in the $20000+ range.
Incidentally an exhaustive summary of most high end processors is
at: http://infopad.eecs.berkeley.edu/CIC/index.html
(Including the new 533Mhz X704 PPC processor)
- Brian