Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760861AbZJIOFs (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:05:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757654AbZJIOFr (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:05:47 -0400 Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.25]:28473 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754373AbZJIOFq convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:05:46 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=n1/aBMbg8eCaD11jItqWQu9V9R2EgGc9VRUObmLEpXn0lWnQSmqf0pOO7EE5bbE54w mZmjl3/8i8jqPaSXQyST1ph7ysRhgomuXZbDQ6cJ1bzYDw0nxp8upMWiEVoVqGvoY2pr dOE+m0KJWV16Ejbrvnp+wZPxvEa7j2xHWxOPo= Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 16:04:34 +0200 From: Alejandro Riveira =?UTF-8?B?RmVybsOhbmRleg==?= To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Bryan Donlan , "Fred ." , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Microsoft is planning Windows 8 to be 128-bit Message-ID: <20091009160434.5616931d@varda> In-Reply-To: <1255074577.26976.355.camel@twins> References: <3e8340490910081620s4f259320h583b91192c4ab88e@mail.gmail.com> <1255074577.26976.355.camel@twins> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 933 Lines: 23 El Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:49:37 +0200 Peter Zijlstra 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/