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Article #2675Re: ATTACK OF KILLER MICROS
From: Bruce Albrecht
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1989 22:52
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1989 22:52
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In article <35979@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, brooks@vette.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks) writes: > Unfortunately, no 4 processor system will ever need more than 32 bit > addresses, so we will have to BEG the micro vendors to put in bigger > pointer support.. Oh really? CDC has several customers that have databases that exceed 2**32 bytes. Our file organization considers files to be virtual memory segments. We already need pointers larger than 32 bits. IBM's AS400 has a virtual address space greater than 32 bits, too. If the micro venders don't see a need for it, they're not paying attention to what the mainframes are really providing for their very large system customers.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!tank!shamash!odeon!bga From: bga@odeon.ahse.cdc.com (Bruce Albrecht) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: ATTACK OF KILLER MICROS Message-ID: <2450@odeon.ahse.cdc.com> Date: 18 Oct 89 22:52:41 GMT References: <35825@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <1081@m3.mfci.UUCP> <35979@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Organization: Control Data Corporation Lines: 11