On 64-bitness, the big win of that is getting processes that can use more than 2GB of address space. In some areas (*cough*bioinformatics*cough*) that's a real need, which is why the Alpha was the processor of choice for those applications before Digicompackard killed it off.
The Itanic-AMD64 fight hasn't necessarily helped any.
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Date: 2005-06-09 08:55 pm (UTC)The Itanic-AMD64 fight hasn't necessarily helped any.