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Article #13226Re: 64 Vs 32
From: Wayne A. Christopher
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1987 05:43
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1987 05:43
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In article <3302@gitpyr.gatech.EDU>, kludge@gitpyr.gatech.EDU (Scott Dorsey) writes: > >What we need to ask is, who will need more than ~1G of memory? > > "You don't really need 64K. 48K is so much memory that nobody > really knows what do with all of it. " Hmm, I seem to have said this the wrong way... I was asking what applications that people run right now are up against the 1G limit, not suggesting that there are no such applications. For my purposes, and I think for the purposes of 95% of computer users, there are better ways to use chip area right now than for 64-bit datapaths. Sure, it would be nice to have a 100 MIPS machine with a 128-bit datapath, but we have a bit of time to wait until it's on our desks. Wayne
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!ames!ucbcad!faustus From: faustus@ucbcad.berkeley.edu (Wayne A. Christopher) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: 64 Vs 32 Message-ID: <1314@ucbcad.berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 18-Mar-87 00:43:52 EST Article-I.D.: ucbcad.1314 Posted: Wed Mar 18 00:43:52 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 19-Mar-87 04:56:53 EST References: <3810013@nucsrl.UUCP> <985@rpics.RPI.EDU> <1310@ucbcad.berkeley.edu> <3302@gitpyr.gatech.EDU> Organization: CAD Group, U.C. Berkeley Lines: 15