Re: 64-bit addresses

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From: Sean Fagan
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1990 01:23

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In article <1990Feb9.235927.5984@ultra.com> ted@ultra.com (Ted Schroeder) writes:
>Use a Cray, they've got 64 bit addressing now.

Uhm, since when?  A registers are 32-bits (4 Gigawords).  Cray-1's had, I
believe, only 24-bit addressing (I think the A registers were still 32-bits,
though; however, I could be wrong).

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From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan)
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Subject: Re: 64-bit addresses
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Date: 21 Feb 90 01:23:25 GMT
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