Re: [libreoffice-users] Win64: Scribus too... :-)

On 04-11-12 13:21, James Knott wrote:
> Mas wrote:
> > I believe someone else mention this on the
> > thread, its not new and unix/linux has been using it.
>
> Yes, there was a 64 bit version of Linux running on the DEC Alpha,
> followed shortly by the IBM PowerPC around 1994 - 1995.
The 64-bit R4000 by MIPS technologies came out in 1992 and was first 
used in Silicon Graphics machines, running IRIX the SGI flavour of UNIX. 
This processor was 64-bit internally but 32-bit externally so only a 
32-bit wide memory-path could be used.Later versions, notably the R8000 
(1994) and the R1000 (1996) were 64-bit internally and externally. In 
1994 SGI licensed the memory architecture, developed by Cray (which it 
bought a few years later) and licensed it, I thought in  2002 to AMD for 
its 64-bit processors. This NUMA architecture is much faster than the 
standard architecture used in other processors and is much more suitable 
for multiprocessor systems.
Joep


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