"128-bit processor - will support 128 and 64 bit applications..."
Excuse, where did you get that information from? The reason why 64-bit
Windows currently does not support 16-bit applications is simply because
Microsoft did not add that emulation layer, because I guess, they just want
16-bit to fade out and the resources to develop such a layer would be a
waste. 32-Bit on the hand is more sensible since the majority of
applications out there today are 32-bit, thats why they have a Windows On
Windows 64 emulation layer for 32-bit applications.
Who knows what may happen when 128-Bit computing comes around? There might
be a maintained emulation layer for both 64-bit and 32-bit because of the
thousands applications. Also, there won't necessarily have to be a 128-bit
processor, since the major CPU manufacturers are moving to multiple core
processes which basically house more processors on one die, so, the future
maybe more about multithreaded applications, not necessarily address space.
64-Bit supports up to 8 TBs of RAM thats a whole of memory, now imagine that
plus a 64-bit processor with 8 cores, Intel said in the near future, we will
have processors with up to 100 cores!
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