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From: abe@j.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: More than 32 bits needed where?
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Date: 24 Feb 88 18:32:27 GMT
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In article <9653@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
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>I expect the next step to be in supercomputers, to 36 or 40 bits,

The CYBER 205, its predecessors, the STAR-100 and the CYBER 205, and its
successors, the ETA-10 series, all have 48 bit addressing.