Road to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: 64-Bits

appleinsider.com - 8/27/2008

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Prince McLean Published: 08:35 AM EST Next year's 10.6 reference release of Mac OS X promises to deliver technology updates throughout the system without focusing on the customer-facing marketing features that typically sell a new operating system. Here's a look at what those behind-the-scenes ...

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appleinsider.com - 9/3/2008

Road to Mac OS X Snow Leopard: 64-bits, Santa Rosa, and more

— appleinsider.com — Snow Leopard's across-the-board leap to 64-bits, from the kernel to all of its bundled apps, will do more than just make more memory available. It also exposes a great PC swindle and highlights Apple's lead in 64-bit computing. Here's why... (more) Road to Mac OS X Snow Leopard: 64-bits, Santa Rosa, and more

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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: Road to 64-Bits
D' Technology Weblog — ... will mean to you, starting with new 64-bit support. By the end of the 80s, Apple had delivered full 32-bit hardware with the Mac II’s 68020 processor and the “32-bit clean” Mac System 7 software, which together enabled applications and the system to theoretically use as much as 4GB of directly addressable memory. By 1995, Microsoft was shipping its own 32-bit Windows API with WinNT and Win95 to take advantage of Intel’s 32-bit 80386 and 486 CPUs. Full Article ...

Snow Leopard’s 64-bit aspirations
CrunchGear — ... to 64-bit computing. Isn’t that the computing power of a Jaguar, not a Snow Leopard? No, silly goose. It’s very technical and I don’t pretend to understand it all the way, but essentially the 32-bit architecture that has been in place for years in x86es limits the maximum amount of RAM you can have, and its effectiveness. 64-bit architectures are available but not widely taken advantage of, and Apple aims to change that somewhat with Snow Leopard. Read more at Apple Insider, and keep an eye on it because there are two more ...