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From: aglew@mcdurb.Urbana.Gould.COM
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 64 bits
Message-ID: <28200260@mcdurb>
Date: 13 Jan 89 02:02:00 GMT
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>/* Written  7:45 am  Dec 16, 1988 by mac3n@babbage.acc.virginia.edu in mcdurb:comp.arch */
>> 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?
>/* End of text from mcdurb:comp.arch */

I just saw an ad for a data vault for a VAX that holds 4-8G.
Given the "3 bits per year" rule of thumb, 36 bits for disk
will be passed soon (if you do the "right thing" and make the disk
an array of bytes - I know, I know, this isn't what's done. But it
should be).

Of course, banks have had terabytes of data for years now.