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From: jkenton@pinocchio.encore.com (Jeff Kenton)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 64-bits
Message-ID: <12553@encore.Encore.COM>
Date: 22 Aug 90 18:05:25 GMT
References: <9883@ganymede.inmos.co.uk>
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From article <9883@ganymede.inmos.co.uk>, by davidb@inmos.co.uk (David Boreham):
> 
> Everyone seems to be making the assumption that we will want
> to have a *DIFFERENT* text space for *EACH* processor, and
> . . .
> 
> 64-bits aught to allow everyone on the planet to use the
> same virtual address space :)
> 


And the kernel code to deal with this wonderful possibility will
take up most of it.











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