Computing technology has undergone significant transformations since its initial accessibility to the masses. One particular evolution that stands out is the shift from 8-bit to 64-bit computing architectures. I still vividly remember my first encounter with these terms during my childhood, while playing on my father's Sega Genesis. There was a white "16-bit" label adorning the front of the console.
Probably the wrong time to mention that I forgot DEC’s Alpha, who arguably got there first. I spent time at the end of the last millenium porting Unigraphics iMAN (now some part of Siemens PLM) between the five different flavours of Unix as represented by those 5 processor families (plus 32/64 variants where applicable). NT on Intel was an afterthought!
itanic the first 64-bit processor architecture? PA-RISC and SPARC and MIPS and POWER would like a word...
Thanks for the feedback. I've issued a correction and credited you https://www.deusinmachina.net/i/136578749/the-revolution-of-bit-computing
Probably the wrong time to mention that I forgot DEC’s Alpha, who arguably got there first. I spent time at the end of the last millenium porting Unigraphics iMAN (now some part of Siemens PLM) between the five different flavours of Unix as represented by those 5 processor families (plus 32/64 variants where applicable). NT on Intel was an afterthought!