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Message-ID: <20091009160434.5616931d@varda>
Date:	Fri, 9 Oct 2009 16:04:34 +0200
From:	Alejandro Riveira Fernández 
	<ariveira@...il.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@...il.com>, "Fred ." <eldmannen@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Microsoft is planning Windows 8 to be 128-bit

El Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:49:37 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> escribió:

> On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 19:20 -0400, Bryan Donlan wrote:
> > The CPU architecture would have to exist first (it doesn't)
> 
> And here I was going to ask Fred to send me such a machine so that I
> could port Linux for him ;-)

 The confusion comes (I think) from a bad worded article[1] in, the otherwise
 quite fine, arstechnica website. They where talking about 128 bit file system
 support (again afaics) but in the article it all sounds as if it where talking
 about 128 bit CPU's ;)


[1]
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/10/microsoft-mulling-128-bit-versions-of-windows-8-windows-9.ars

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