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From: shekita@provolone.cs.wisc.edu (E Shekita)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: 64-bit addresses
Summary: are they on the near horizon or still way off in the distance?
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Date: 9 Feb 90 18:08:24 GMT
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Could any of you hardware designers in the trenches out there 
tell me whether 64-bit addresses will become reality anytime soon.
If so, how soon. If not, why... And how about in the distant future, say,
10 years, which is virtually an eternity in hardware design.

Here are UW we have some database applications that might benefit 
from 64-bit addresses. We were wondering whether a research
design based on the assumption of 64-bit addresses in the near
future would be too optimistic.

thanks in advance -- Gene