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64 bit technology, Processors, Operating Systems available today

There are a whole lot of names by which the 64-bit technology is famous. I just wanted to get a comprehensive list of the same available at one place for my own use. Here is what I found out when I searched for the various names/technologies/OS’s available in the 64-bit arena. The following are the findings

Technology Names

·   x64 (Extended 64)

·   AMD 64

·   EM64T

·   Itanium

·   RS/6000 64-bit solution from IBM

·   Power PC architecture from IBM

·   PowerPC 970xx Processors from IBM

·   x86-64 for porting open source software to the AMD64 architecture

·   8.1.2 x86 64-bit processors

Processors

AMD64 based

• AMD Opteron processor
• AMD Athlon 64 processor
• AMD Turion 64 mobile technology
• AMD Sempron64

EMT64T based

• Intel Pentium D processor
• Intel Pentium processor Extreme Edition
• Intel Xeon processor

IA-64 based

·   Intel Itanium 2 Processor

Power PC

·   Power Mac G5 with PowerPC processors from Apple

SPARC based

·   UltraSPARC T1 processor from Sun

·     UltraSPARC IV+ 64-bit processor from Sun

PA-RISC technology based

·     64-bit PA-RISC based processors

·     64-bit HP EV68 and EV7 Alpha processor

DEC Alpha Architecture based

·     DEC Alpha or Alpha AXP by Digital Equipment Corp. (Compaq)

Operating Systems

·   Windows XP x64

·   Windows Server 2003 x64

·   Solaris 8

·   Mac OS X Tiger

·   HP-UX operating system

·   Tru64 UNIX

·   Comprehensive summary of all OS's from AMD

I am sure that while compiling the above, I might have missed some names. In case you are aware, pl comment and help me add to my list.