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Article #22416Re: 64-bit addresses
From: Stephen Tihor
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 02:54
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 02:54
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My work with NYU Academnic Computing Facility's computer of the month club membership (actually more of a mini-super of the month) has exposed me to a number of vendors systems who tried to provide 64 bits or better (because their FP was 64 bits or better and 64 bit integers were cheap and very useful for their target codes). Most of these systems have failed to support the 64bits for long (ELXSI is partcularlt pblatant example.) Their problems were mostly the growth of UNIX with the co-comittant use of C and the lousy portability of BSD (although much GNUcode is also written with the ingrained knowledge that int = long = 32bits, etc. And FORTRAN deserves and least a third of the blame.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!acf4!tihor From: tihor@acf4.NYU.EDU (Stephen Tihor) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: 64-bit addresses Message-ID: <12780027@acf4.NYU.EDU> Date: 13 Feb 90 02:54:00 GMT References: <9708@spool.cs.wisc.edu> Organization: New York University Lines: 12