Re: looking for >32-bit address space [and how will C handle it]

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From: Colin Plumb
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 1989 23:30

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faustus@dogwood.Berkeley.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher) wrote:
> Take a look at this month's Spectrum -- there's an article about the
> Intel i680 chip, which seems to have a flat 64-bit address space.

No, it has a 32-bit flat address space.  I think its external data bus
and fp unit give it the right to call itself a 64-bit microprocessor, but
the integer unit is pretty vanilla 32-bit.
-- 
	-Colin (uunet!microsoft!w-colinp)

"Don't listen to me.  I never do." - The Doctor

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From: w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
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Subject: Re: looking for >32-bit address space [and how will C handle it]
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Date: 5 Apr 89 23:30:32 GMT
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