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Article #22314Re: 64-bit addresses
From: Allen J. Baum
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1990 01:46
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1990 01:46
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>In article <20270@cfctech.cfc.com> joel@cfctech.cfc.com (Joel Lessenberry) 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 HP precision has a 48 or 64 bit segmented address space. (2^32 byte segs)
The TERA computer will have 48 bit flat address space.
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