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Excited about 128 bit "Windows 8"? Don't hold your breath.

by Grant Robertson on October 8, 2009 at 04:05 PM

I got a message yesterday directing me to some groundbreaking post on Ars Technica, in which the long-winded and storied tale of an in-development 128 bit version of Windows unfolded like something out of a geek spy novel. Robert Morgan is working to get IA-128 working backwards with full binary compatibility on the existing IA-64 instructions in the hardware simulation to work for Windows 8 and ...