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           kahn@romulus.rtp.dg.com "Opher Kahn" writes:

>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.

20 years ago people didn't imagine applications that could need megabytes
or gigabytes of memory (and larger amounts of backing store). The evidence
at the moment is that software expands to fill the hardware available (and
then demands more). We can predict much better now how thing develop than
we could then because we know what to base that prediction on (i.e. the
improvements in hardware) and we have much more experience now about what to
expect in that area. That's not to say we can predict for certain what will
happen, just that we have much better grounds for prediction.

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