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Hi
Whats the differance between a 32-bit processor and a 64-bit processor?

Thanks!
christianSpears

 

[TunaBoo]

32 bit procs use 32 bit code, 64 bit procs used 64 bit code (both can read lower bit instructions, either through emulation or legacy support).

Do you mean the difference between 32bit and 64bit code? 64bit code stores a BONGLOAD more info per byte, allowing much more complex math to be done. I think SNES was like 16 bit and N64 is 64 bit. There is a big difference.


Win 3.1 was 16 bit, win9x and 2k are 32 bit with 16bit support.