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From: mccalpin@loligo.uucp (John McCalpin)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: looking for >32-bit address space
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Date: 4 Apr 89 00:16:16 GMT
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In article <1032@myrias.UUCP> cmt@myrias.UUCP (Chris Thomson) writes:
>Are there any micros or chipsets out there that support an address space
>larger than 32 bits? ...

Well, it's not exactly a chipset yet, but the ETA-10 line from CDC
uses a 48-bit bit-addressed linear address space.  
I hear that their next-generation CPU boards are small enough to 
fit in a coat pocket, so it almost counts :-)
----------------------   John D. McCalpin   ------------------------
Dept of Oceanography & Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
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