Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!aglew From: aglew@lasso.crhc.uiuc.edu (Andy Glew) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: 64-bits Message-ID: Date: 22 Aug 90 20:34:07 GMT References: <9883@ganymede.inmos.co.uk> <12553@encore.Encore.COM> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois, Computer Systems Group Lines: 10 In-Reply-To: jkenton@pinocchio.encore.com's message of 22 Aug 90 18:05:25 GMT >> 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. Only if it has to be backward compatible with every obsolete computer network ever written :-{ -- Andy Glew, a-glew@uiuc.edu [get ph nameserver from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:net/qi]