Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!david
From: david@sun.uucp (David DiGiacomo)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: More than 32 bits needed where?
Message-ID: <41350@sun.uucp>
Date: 8 Feb 88 20:57:20 GMT
References: <235@unicom.UUCP> <28200089@ccvaxa> <3104@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <4340@ames.arpa> <1333@vaxb.calgary.UUCP>
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Mtn View, CA
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In article <1333@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> radford@calgary.UUCP (Radford Neal) writes:
>Now I can see the flames coming on this one... How increadibly short
>sighted! History shows that we *always* need more address bits... Please
>calculate the amount of memory addressable with 48 bits, then ask whether
>systems with this much memory, if they ever appear, will have anything
>like a current machine architecture anyway...

I can easily imagine a network with more than 16K, 16 Gb disks connected to
it.  It would be silly to arbitrarily restrict file size in such a system.