Re: Is 64 bits enough address space?

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From: Adam Megacz
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 1995 21:31

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>Or another way to look at is economically.  Suppose in the future memory
>system prices drop to 1 cent per megabyte.  Then 64 bits worth of physical
>memory costs $160 billion.  Carrying it further, at .01 cents/megabyte it's
>still $1.6 billion.
>
>Forget your children's college tuition costs.  Start saving now for the
>memories of the future!

Yeah, but you can never have enough adress space - just look at how Intel 
botched the 8086 (or IBM botched by putting it in the PC). You can use all 
that extra adress space for memory mapped files, virtual memory, and mapping 
the I/O space into the memory space. I think that 64 bits will be enough for 
a *long time*, but we will outgrow 32 bits (4GB) before 2010.


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