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>> There has been a lot of 'chatter' recently in the Borland newsgroups
>> requesting a 64-bit version of the Delphi compiler. All
>> responses indicate
>> that this is something Borland have low down on their priority list.
>>
>> It occurred to me that this might be a way for Blackbox to
>> differentiate
>> itself and to attract some additional customers. Interest
>> has been shown in
>> the AMD 64-bit CPU and the Intel 64-bit Extension
>> Technology. I don't know
>> much about it but I understand that there is less work
>> involved in adapting
>> a compiler to support these evolutionary designs rather than
>> the new 64-bit
>> Intel Itanium chip. Preview versions of 64-bit versions of
>> Windows XP are
>> already available.
>>
>> We don't currently need the additional addressing range,
>> number-range or
>> other particular capabilities of a 64-bit system ourselves,
>> but it is very
>> likely to be of use to the scientific customers that
>> Blackbox currently
>> serves well.
>>
>> Comments anyone?
>>
>> Chris Burrows
>> CFB Software
>> http://www.cfbsoftware.com
Oms's presentation at CERN recently (
http://cern.ch/oberon.day/) refers to
a 64-bit Unix version of BlackBox.
Robert
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