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64 bit technology, Processors, Operating Systems available today

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There are a whole lot of names by which the 64-bit technology is famous. I just wanted to get a comprehensive list of the same available at one place for my own use. Here is what I found out when I searched for the various names/technologies/OS’s available in the 64-bit arena. The following are the findings

Technology Names

· x64 (Extended 64)

· AMD 64

· EM64T

· Itanium

· RS/6000 64-bit solution from IBM

· Power PC architecture from IBM

· PowerPC 970xx Processors from IBM

· x86-64 for porting open source software to the AMD64 architecture

· 8.1.2 x86 64-bit processors

Processors

AMD64 based

EMT64T based

IA-64 based

· Intel Itanium 2 Processor

 

Power PC

· Power Mac G5 with PowerPC processors from Apple

 

SPARC based

· UltraSPARC T1 processor from Sun

· UltraSPARC IV+ 64-bit processor from Sun

 

PA-RISC technology based

· 64-bit PA-RISC based processors

· 64-bit HP EV68 and EV7 Alpha processor

 

DEC Alpha Architecture based

· DEC Alpha or Alpha AXP by Digital Equipment Corp. (Compaq)

Operating Systems

· Windows XP x64

· Windows Server 2003 x64

· Solaris 8

· Mac OS X Tiger

· HP-UX operating system

· Tru64 UNIX

· Comprehensive summary of all OS's from AMD

I am sure that while compiling the above, I might have missed some names. In case you are aware, pl comment and help me add to my list.

Thanks.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2006
    In today’s world, a lot of applications are written targeting both the 32-bit and/or the 64-bit platform....
  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2006
    This blog aims at clarifying the issues which 32-bit developers might be having when they start migrating...
  • Anonymous
    March 22, 2006
    Is there any performance degradation in installing a 32 bit OS say Windows XP professional on a 64 bit processor machine?
    If so what/why?