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In article <730@amdcad.UUCP> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:
>But 24 bits of address is not a huge thing, which is what the 32032 has.
>24 bits is only 16 Mb or 4 4 Mb memory cards.

Only 4 4Mb cards? Sigh-- Just think of the vast numbers of Vaxes running 16
megabytes right now. Just thihk of the size of the 4 Mb cards in your 16Mb
Vax Last I looked, 16Mb was a LOT of memory, and from a cost/manufacturing
point of view, probably more than a 32000 based (or 68K system) will run
until memory costs drop and density increases. We DO have 32bit addressing
silicon on the boards and on its way to reality, and I expect it will be a
purchasable commodity long before the megabit chips that will be neccessary
to make those kind of address spaces truly useful. 32bit addressing makes a
nice marketing tool, granted, but there really isn't much that a 32bit
address gives you that a 24bit address doesn't also give you in a
manufactured product EXCEPT a marketing tool. 

chuq
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