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From: chiaraviglio@husc2.UUCP (lucius)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: >32-bit microprocessors in the works, anyone?
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Date: Sun, 16-Nov-86 19:47:19 EST
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Organization: Harvard Univ. Science Ctr., Cambridge, MA
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Keywords: 36, 40, 48, 64, or more bits internally?

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	Has anyone heard of anybody working on a microprocessor with an
internal data-width of more than 32 bits?  I think we are going to be due for
another internal data-width and address-width upgrade in a few years, as
people move more number-crunching and very large applications onto
microprocessor-based systems.  Also, increasing the external bus width would
(in conjunction with pipelining/instruction-stream-caching) help alleviate the
problem of processors being considerably faster than memory.  However, I have
not heard of any internal or external data- or address- width increases in the
works.

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