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From: kludge@gitpyr.gatech.EDU (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 64 Vs 32
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Date: Tue, 17-Mar-87 12:42:53 EST
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Wayne A. Christopher writes:

>What we need to ask is, who will need more than ~1G of memory?  I think
>the only applications that currently could use this much memory are
>scientific programs that run on Crays (which I think are addressible to
>the 64-bit word anyway).  I certainly haven't been running into the 1G
>limit too often lately.
>
>	Wayne

   "You don't really need 64K.  48K is so much memory that nobody 
    really knows what do with all of it.  " 
                               -- Ithaca Audio Salesman

   "It's possible to upgrade the machine to 640K, but there isn't 
    any software that uses more than 256K"
                               -- IBM PC Salesman
-- 
Scott Dorsey   Kaptain_Kludge
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    Georgia Institute of Technology, Box 36681, Atlanta, Georgia 30332
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