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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was recently reading Tracy Kidder's excellent book Soul of a New Machine.

The author pointed out what a big deal the transition to 32-Bit computing was.

However, in the last 20 years, I don't really remember a big fuss being made of most computers going to 64-bit as a de facto standard. Why is this?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It was noticeable for us because Exchange 2008 was the first M$FT product that only ran 64. That was our first 64-bit box

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Of all applications - email needed 64 bits!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Kind of. Exchange is a memory hog.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Exchange takes all the memory you got.

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