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From: jerry@TALOS.UUCP (Jerry Gitomer)
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Subject: Re: 64-bits, How many years?
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Date: 19 Feb 91 13:52:10 GMT
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baum@Apple.COM (Allen J. Baum) writes:

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::In article <1991Feb18.163010.31688@m.cs.uiuc.edu: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies) writes:
::
::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?

They do, but collectively rather than individually ;-)

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