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From: baum@Apple.COM (Allen J. Baum)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 64-bit addresses
Message-ID: <38509@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 10 Feb 90 01:46:11 GMT
References: <9708@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <20270@cfctech.cfc.com>
Reply-To: baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum)
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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>In article <20270@cfctech.cfc.com> joel@cfctech.cfc.com (Joel Lessenberry) writes:
>>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.

The HP precision has a 48 or 64 bit segmented address space. (2^32 byte segs)
The TERA computer will have 48 bit flat address space.

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