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My friend Vito down on Mulberry Street sold me a PC that
had fallen off a truck. How can I tell if it is 32 or 64
bit? Vito told me not to ask any questions, or me and all
of the bits will be sleeping with the fishes.
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(I do realise this is a tale) -
Yeah.... Right. Like this PC suddenly threw itself off of
the back of a pickup truck, or the doors flew open and
PC's started bouncing all over the place. This Vito sounds
like a shady character to me. He's got you huddled in a
dark alley somewhare looking over his "merchandise". He
nervously looks over his shoulder, seeing if anybody is
watching. He wishes you would hurry up and make up your
mind. Buy right now or no deal. Vito says, "No questions,
merchandise is AS IS, and if you blab your mouth about
where you got this beauty, I'll sink you and the
merchandise in the bay....."
I don't profess to know much about all the processors
there are. I would know that if I popped the case and
discovered it had an Intel Itanium, I would know I had a
64 bit computer, and maybe be a little nervouse myself if
I accepted such a deal. Maybe Vito might show up again
wanting more money...... pay up or else....
This appears to boil down to an earlier comment made by
you, comparing cpus to engines. And comments about
mechanics.
So here is my answer:
I would say that anyone who has the following cpu's in
there computers and are running XP can feel comfortable
knowing they have a 32bit cpu:
Intel Pentium/Celeron family
AMD K6/Athlon/Duron family, or compatible processor.
And, AMD has a 64bit cpu in the works, but it hasn't hit
the market yet, so anyone who has an AMD family processor
can be rest assured they DO NOT have 64 bits.
