[Gllug] 64bit computing

John Hearns hearnsj at googlemail.com
Fri Sep 4 21:07:10 UTC 2009


2009/9/4 t.clarke <tim at seacon.co.uk>:
> I found the following extract from the F.T. today very illuminating ....
>
> What is 64bit Computing?
> Computers process instructiobns in binary format.
> Eaach bit is capable of processing one binary instruction at a time.
> Until recently, Most PCs used 32-bit processors, meaning that they could
> porocess 32 binary instructions per clock cycle.

Sweet :-)   do you have a URL for that please?
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