Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Be Prepared... Message-ID: <3206@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 15 Feb 91 13:44:33 GMT References: <1991Feb13.160718.25759@visix.com> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY Lines: 11 In article wolfe@vw.ece.cmu.edu (Andrew Wolfe) writes: | I have been told that it is estimated that 64-bits will address all of the | subatomic particles in our universe. Assuming that you have a 1 gigaBYTE bus on that memory, it will take 316 years (almost 317) to swap a program in. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "I'll come home in one of two ways, the big parade or in a body bag. I prefer the former but I'll take the latter" -Sgt Marco Rodrigez