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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 64 bits--why stop there?
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Date: 5 Sep 90 14:32:18 GMT
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rogers@iris.ucdavis.edu (Brewski Rogers) writes:
| Enough of this! It's obvious the computer of the future will have a word
| the same size as the total memory of the computer. The registers will
| all be bit addressable. Just think - you could read ALL the memory of
| the computer in *1* cycle!

  Only if you have the BIG CACHE option ;-)


  "What's the bandwidth of the bus on that?"

  "About 120 cm"

  "What's that in American?"

  "2.98 mili-furlongs"
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
    VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.