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From: haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (99700000)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: More than 32 bits needed where?
Message-ID: <1856@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Date: 6 Feb 88 06:52:22 GMT
References: <235@unicom.UUCP> <28200089@ccvaxa> <3104@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <19667@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <625@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
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In article <625@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>In article <19667@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
>writes about "Commercial" instruction sets.
>
>If 32 bits isn't enough, why not go to 48 as the next step?

Hear! Hear!  I love Burroughs the B5500, even tho it's been gone (sob)
for several years.


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