Coming Soon: 128 bit Windows 8 and 9

It's only good for server systems. Pooled volumes, 128-bit FS, snapshots and metadata backups are all server functions. Nobody at home needs ZFS.

 

Average Joe cant even understand 16/32/64bit. Throwing this into the mix would be a big mistake in the consumer market.

 

Really?

I can just see the nightmare that ensues if Microsoft went down this road. Getting Active Directory to replicate permissions between ZFS and NTFS systems. Trying to support failover clustering with different types of file systems. DFS replication. And then you move on to Exchange and SQL server............

 

http://www.techspot.com/news/36509-microsoft-employee-hints-at-128bit-support-in-windows-8.html

That was in my newsletter this morning.

 

Wow, people are still propagating this erroneous crap?

 

Windows 7 is the last 32/ 64 bit OS. Funny????

 

Do U Believe?

 

consumer operating systems are going to settle at 64 bits of addressable memory for a long, long time.

2^64 isn't "double" 2^32. It is a MASSIVE increase. It is 4 billion TIMES the addressable memory.

So the systems we were using yesteryear worked fine with 32 bits of addressable memory. Then we multiplied that number by 4 BILLION for today. Done.

If we increased to 128 bits, it would be an increase by a factor of 1.8*10^19, which is a number too large reasonably to comprehend.

Certain applications can take advantage of higher precision math, but that doesn't matter for consumers, ss its a moot point, and, as stated, there are ways to get around that anyway. As far as memory goes, we simply don't need that much addressable memory.

There are only 10^80 atoms in the observable universe, so imagine 256 bits of address space. That corresponds to almost 10^80 bits of addressable memory. Until we can start storing multiple bits of memory in single atoms, we are kind of hitting an addressable memory wall. We won't need to address more than 64 bits for a long, long time.

Again, 64 bit calculations are a separate thing altogether.

 

That's when we go from parallel processing to parallel universe processing.

 

In terms of memory addressibility, yes we'll be sticking with 64bit for a long time. But for computing purposes, it is entirely possible that wider architectures can be beneficial for particular applications.

Doesn't the current architecture already have a few media related 128 bit instructions? As in 128 bit input data?

 

10 years ago I was running Unix machines with >128Gb of real memory in a single system image. The machines were capable of holding double that.

 

Seriously? 10 years ago?

Memory addressability is not necessarily an indication of what kind of architecture the processor is. It is a good hint though.

 

yes, in the late 1990s on SGI and Pyramid Unix platforms I had some seriously large databases running wholly in memory.

Sadly, neither Pyramid or SGI is around any longer. But current gen HP, IBM and SUN platforms can do 512Gb of single system image ram.

I've seen IBM zOS machines demo-configed with a full Tb of ram. Just Because They Can.

 

Windows 8 Leaked!



Reviving old thread for the win!

I especially love how Windows 7 is considered only a refresh and not a release. ^^



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