Re:Mozilla quietly kills Firefox 64-bit for Windows
by rplnt on Thursday November 22, 2012 @07:48AM
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Athlon64, released in 2003, was quite popular. In the middle of the 2004 most of the AMD desktop processors (athlon, sempron) were 64-bit. So it wasn't "quite a few years" exactly. Only netbooks brought 32bit back to life somehow.
Re:Mozilla quietly kills Firefox 64-bit for Windows
by JeremyMorgan on Thursday November 22, 2012 @01:06PM
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Now that I think about it, rplnt is right it was late 2003 I got an athlon64, so 9 years.
Intel didn't put out an x86-64 chip until 2004, and their first desktop chip wasn't until early 2005 (IIRC). AMD's first 64-bit chip (Opteron) wasn't until 2003. Neither of these were mass market for quite a few years; it wasn't until 2006 that you really started seeing them in mass-market desktops. Now, there were exceptions of course, most notably the iMac and PowerMac G5, but 64-bit machines really weren't in the hands of general users until 2006-2007.