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From: baum@Apple.COM (Allen J. Baum)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 64-bits, How many years?
Message-ID: <49319@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 18 Feb 91 23:59:02 GMT
References: <9102171510.AA24745@lilac.berkeley.edu> <1991Feb18.163010.31688@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum)
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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>In article <1991Feb18.163010.31688@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies) writes:
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>Re: Is 64bits too much -- how many years?
>I bet a 64-bit address space will take a fusion reactor
>power plant to supply enough energy.....

Remember when computers of the future would take all the power of Niagra Falls
to operate?

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