Re: 64-bit addresses

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From: Michael Meissner
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1990 14:48

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In article <11254@encore.Encore.COM> peralta@pinocchio.Encore.COM
(Rick Peralta) writes:

| In article <3786@uceng.UC.EDU> dmocsny@uceng.UC.EDU (daniel mocsny) writes:
| >Now that this barrier is history, how long will we wait for ...
| 
| This may not be the best place for this, but...
| 
| What about getting rid of conventional secondary storage?
| Simply keep everything in virtual memory and have the OS
| maintain whatever secondary store it sees fit?
| 
| This is more of an OS issue, but if the iron isn't there...

Hmm, you seem to have just proposed the System/3x (and AS/400 I think)
from IBM, which uses a single level store.  Of course the only
languages supported on it are business-type languages (RPG and Cobol).
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Michael Meissner	email: meissner@osf.org		phone: 617-621-8861
Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA

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From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner)
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Subject: Re: 64-bit addresses
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