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From: Michael.Marsden@newcastle.ac.uk (Michael Marsden)
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Subject: Re: Translating 64-bit addresses
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Date: 10 Mar 91 15:41:07 GMT
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linley@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com (Linley Gwennap) writes:
>(Jeff Lee)
>>16777216 terabyte (64-bit) address space.  [What comes after tera-?]

>"Peta".  A 64-bit address space contains 16,384 petabytes.  So what
>comes after peta-?


"Eta". The 64-bit address space is 16 EtaBytes. The non-computing value of
Eta is 10^18, i.e. approx 2^60.

So what comes after Eta, when we start arguing about 96 bits vs. 128 bits in
a decades time?

                                            -Mike Mars




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