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In article <6315@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <13625@cbmvax.commodore.com> valentin@cbmvax (Valentin Pepelea) writes:
>> Due to the popularity of Unix, we are tempted to understand operating system
>> concepts in terms of how Unix has been implemented. It is very difficult to
>> convince a programmer that a global addressing space is much more efficient
>> and versatile than a separate addressing spaces as implemented in Unix.
>
>To a certain point, this is true. Eventually, though, you run out of address
>bits. In the 16 bit world this has led to Split I/D segments and then segment
>registers. In the 32-bit world it's just starting to happen. Time for a 64
>bit address space?
>
>(see comp.arch for more info)
>-- 
>Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
><peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.

The IBM POWER series has a 56 bit (I think that's the right number) address
space.  That's quite a bit of space 8-)

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