Re: Is 64 bits enough address space?

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From: Henry Baker
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 1995 18:18

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In article <44p44b$aqe@news.dtc.hp.com>, shoens@hpl.hp.com wrote:

> 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!

When I was an undergraduate, tuition at MIT started at <$2K and quickly went to
nearly $4K.  The student newspaper projected >$100K tuitions by the year
2000, and MIT seems to be right on track.  So I think that Parkinson's Law
is stronger than Moore's Law.

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