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From: aduane@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Andrew Duane)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Be Prepared...
Keywords: Lots Of Memory
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Date: 12 Mar 91 17:22:54 GMT
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In article <839@spim.mips.COM> cprice@mips.com (Charlie Price) writes:
>The R6000 processor (MIPS ECL) has a 36-bit physical address,
>so the CHIP can address 64 GBytes of physical memory.
>The virtual space for any process is 2 GBytes (shades of an 11/70!).

Reminds me of the T-Shirts that DEC put out at a DECUS about 10 years
ago, with the slogan:

	"I don't care what people say
	 36 bits are here to stay."

They cancelled the DEC-20 line a few months later, but I guess history
proved them right after all ...


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