Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!amdcad!weitek!jetsun!mahar From: mahar@jetsun.weitek.COM (Mike Mahar) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Be Prepared... Message-ID: <1991Feb15.174907.24008@jetsun.weitek.COM> Date: 15 Feb 91 17:49:07 GMT References: <1991Feb13.160718.25759@visix.com> Reply-To: mahar@jetsun.WEITEK.COM (Mike Mahar) Organization: WEITEK, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 18 In article wolfe@vw.ece.cmu.edu (Andrew Wolfe) writes: > >Better yet; > >I have been told that it is estimated that 64-bits will address all of the >subatomic particles in our universe. This is clearly untrue. If you have 64Mbit ram it would only take 2.3 trillion of them to fully populate the memory space. 2.3 trillion is a lot but we probably have about that much memory in the world today. It is interestion to note that if you could read or write one 64 bit word every 10ns it would take 731 years to touch every bit in the machine. -- "The bug is in the package somewhere". | Mike Mahar - Anyone who has used Ada | UUCP: {turtlevax, cae780}!weitek!mahar