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From: jpk@ingres.com (Jon Krueger)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Historical architectural advances??
Message-ID: <1990Oct16.034538.564@ingres.Ingres.COM>
Date: 16 Oct 90 03:45:38 GMT
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>from  phil@motaus.sps.mot.com (Phil Brownfield):
>The MC68000 [had a 24 bit space in 1979 and support for future
>models with 32 bit spaces]...

Thanks for refeshing my memory.  Perhaps you can help me with the other
side of the comparison.  I seem to remember that DEC was shipping a
processor with a 30 bit space in 1978 and support for future models
with 32 bit spaces.  I wonder what ever became of that line.

-- Jon
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Jon Krueger, jpk@ingres.com