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Article #12582Re: 64-bit chips, 32-bit compatibility?
From: Jeff Jackson
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 17:06
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 17:06
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>>This sounds to me like a good story; certainly if i got to design a brand new
>>architecture for the next 30 years, i'd make it clear that it's really 64-bit,
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Well, I would be careful about such statements. It was MUCH LESS than 30
>years ago that people thought that 16 bits was a lot and 32 bits was more than
>we would need this century.
And they weren't too far off. 32-bits is sufficient for nearly all
applications and probably will remain so for a few more releases of
MicroSoft Windows. ;-)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!hawk.hcsc.com!hawk!jgj From: jgj@ssd.csd.harris.com (Jeff Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: 64-bit chips, 32-bit compatibility? Date: 27 Sep 1995 17:06:29 GMT Organization: I would rather be windsurfing. Message-ID: <JGJ.95Sep27130629@rcx1.ssd.csd.harris.com> References: <43srit$94b@hermes.synopsys.com> <43tada$8i6@rbdc.rbdc.com> <jgkDFG9HJ.49x@netcom.com> <44boso$ies@dg-rtp.dg.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rcx1.ssd.csd.harris.com In-reply-to: kahn@romulus.rtp.dg.com's message of 27 Sep 1995 14:59:36 GMT