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From: mac3n@babbage.acc.virginia.edu (Alex Colvin)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 64 bits
Summary: 32 < 36 < 64 bits
Message-ID: <451@babbage.acc.virginia.edu>
Date: 16 Dec 88 13:45:25 GMT
References: <28200249@mcdurb>
Organization: University of Virginia
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> It's long past time that computer systems - compilers and/or
> ALUs - supported >32 bit integers. 64 bits here we come!

uh... would 36 hold you for a few days?
and how about running out of characters at 256?