Do we need more of 'em bits?
It's been a while since the last update... I think it's best to keep quiet unless you have something sensible to say. Today, I do.
Spiked by a piece on the Inquirer, Slashdot is debating if we need 64 bit computing on the desktop or not. It's an interresting discussion... Personally I think that the most important aspect of all this is that we need to do the transition to the new architecture before reaching the bottlenecks of the existing one. That way the headaches can be avoided.
An IBM engineer once told by father that spellchecking in word processors wouln't be possible during his lifetime. Suffice it to say that my father hasn't turned sixty yet... I don't think we can anticipate the things that 64 bit computing will make possible, but I'm sure we will never see those things unless we have the 64 bit architecture to invent them on.