Re: 64-bit addresses

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From: Joel Lessenberry
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1990 22:05

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In article <9708@spool.cs.wisc.edu> shekita@provolone.cs.wisc.edu (E Shekita) writes:
>Could any of you hardware designers in the trenches out there 
>tell me whether 64-bit addresses will become reality anytime soon.
>If so, how soon. If not, why... And how about in the distant future, say,
>10 years, which is virtually an eternity in hardware design.
>
	The IBM AS/400 processor with Single level storage utilizes 
	a 64 bit virtual address space.

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From: joel@cfctech.cfc.com (Joel Lessenberry)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 64-bit addresses
Summary: AS/400
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Date: 9 Feb 90 22:05:20 GMT
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