Windows 7 release = the arrival of 64-bit systems?

46% of Windows 7 users worldwide have chosen a 64-bit operating system, and the 32-bit operating system used daily has reached a standout. At the same time, in the daily application process, 64-bit system users are also facing the threat of more and more Trojan viruses and malware, but there has been no effective security tools. Does this kind of sign mean that Windows 7 is coming, is the 64-bit era coming? Maybe after reading this article, you have the answer in your heart, what do you say?

64-bit hardware and Operating systems have been around for a long time, initially they were limited to the server market for Cray supercomputers, UNIX, OpenVMS, and other enterprise operating systems.

Most people initially come into contact with 64-bit versions of 64-bit AMD and Intel, as well as Windows XP 64-bit versions and Linux support. However, no one was able to run these operating systems at the time because it required the purchase of 64-bit hardware. This is not just a 64-bit processor problem, many of the hardware is also missing 64 for Windows drivers, resulting in special choices for printers, scanners, graphics cards and other devices.

Of course, that era has passed, and the current hardware support has been significantly improved after the Windows Vista 64-bit version and the current Windows 7 64-bit version. Part of the reason is that 64-bit systems have gradually become mainstream, especially in the server field, such as Microsoft Exchange 2007, only 64-bit version, and partly because of the AMD-designed x86-64 architecture, although it appears to be better than Intel's Itanium. The device is a bit late, but it is compatible with 32-bit code.

So what is the actual 64-bit? It is still not known to most of us. When interviewing a software manufacturer for a 64-bit version of the product, their answer was: Many people have never heard of the term.

Fundamentally, a 64-bit architecture means that the length of the data unit used by the processor is 64 bits (or eight bytes), which means that more bits can be stored, ie more More storage. Recalling the Commodore 64 and similar computers of the past, they were all 8-bit systems, which handled up to 64KB of memory, which was a big storage at the time. And now 2GB of memory computers are everywhere.

Just like the memory owned by an 8-bit machine has a cap, the upper limit of the memory of a 32-bit operating system is 4GB. The 64-bit operating system increases the storage limit to an astonishing 16 exabytes, or 16.8 million terabytes, or 17.2 billion GB.

In addition, more digital 64-bit systems have an advantage in processing data. Maybe you think that there is very little possibility of dealing with big data at present, but with the popularity of high-definition media. More than 4GB video files are also normal.

It’s good from the 64-bit theory, but would you buy a high-profile computer for 64-bit? The answer may be, of course, if your computer is new, you will be surprised. The discovery that you have a 64-bit processor, although you are running a 32-bit version of Windows.

There is a great application called SecurAble that recognizes and tells you if your processor is 64-bit and then determines if a 64-bit operating system can be loaded. And it also recognizes if you have hardware DEP (Date Execution Prevention), which supports and embeds hardware virtualization. Virtualization is especially important for the Windows XP Mode (XPM) version of Windows 7, because it is configured with a virtual Windows XP in a running Windows 7 environment. Previous12Next page Total 2 pages