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A processor that can run a 64-bit OS. The DEC Alpha is 64-bit, and so are Intel's Itanium and AMD's Opteron and Athlon 64 processors. The 386, 486, and Pentium and Pentium II/III/4 are all 32-bit processors, even though the Pentium and newer chips have 64-bit memory buses.
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64-bit Chips - By ANICK JESDANUN AP Internet WriterNEW YORK (AP) -- Think of the Library of Congress' entire printcollections _ and then some _ to get an idea of how much data spaceenthusiasts have downloaded from NASA's Web sites this week.Visitors had obtained more than 34.6 terabytes of images, video andother information as of Friday afternoon, the bulk related to the Marsrover Spirit. By some estimates, all the words in every book in theLibrary of Congress total 20 terabytes.So far, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has postedall raw images from Spirit, some within a half-hour of the datareaching Earth. At least 10 to 30 images are expected daily, with someeven available in 3-D.NASA also created panoramic views by piecing several images togetherand plans interactive features in which viewers control the view witha mouse (sorry, but you won't be able to control the spacecraft'scamera directly).Once the rover begins moving, NASA plans video summaries at leastweekly by combining still images. For now, video is largely limited toanimation of the spacecraft's journey, documentary-style clips andstreaming of the NASA TV cable channel.- http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=40157493
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