Bob Phair wrote:
> My point is that everyone will be forced to move to faster machines
> and as soon as they do, they will surely move to 32-bit operating
> systems. Don't look back! 64-bit systems will probably not be far
> behind.
I don't know how to break this to you, but 64-bit hardware and operating
systems is old news to people using Digital Alpha hardware with Digital
Unix. Most of the hardware running Unix these days (if we exclude
Linux) is 64-bit hardware. Digital is far out in front of everyone else
(except maybe HP; I wouldn't know not having touched one of their
machines in years) as far as the OS is concerned, but the other Unix
vendors are moving in that direction rapidly.
Marc R. Roussel
(roussel at henri.chem.uleth.ca)
Department of Chemistry
University of Lethbridge
