Xref: utzoo comp.arch:9149 comp.lang.c:17445 Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!ames!lll-winken!uunet!microsoft!w-colinp From: w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb) Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: looking for >32-bit address space [and how will C handle it] Message-ID: <1244@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 5 Apr 89 23:30:32 GMT References: <16568@winchester.mips.COM> <1032@myrias.UUCP> <12289@reed.UUCP> <11968@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: w-colinp@microsoft.uucp (Colin Plumb) Organization: very little Lines: 11 faustus@dogwood.Berkeley.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher) wrote: > Take a look at this month's Spectrum -- there's an article about the > Intel i680 chip, which seems to have a flat 64-bit address space. No, it has a 32-bit flat address space. I think its external data bus and fp unit give it the right to call itself a 64-bit microprocessor, but the integer unit is pretty vanilla 32-bit. -- -Colin (uunet!microsoft!w-colinp) "Don't listen to me. I never do." - The Doctor