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From: amos@nsc.nsc.com (Amos Shapir)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 64-bit addresses
Message-ID: <13589@nsc.nsc.com>
Date: 13 Feb 90 01:56:13 GMT
References: <WAYNE.90Feb11165528@dsndata.uucp>
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In article <WAYNE.90Feb11165528@dsndata.uucp> wayne@dsndata.uucp (Wayne Schlitt) writes:
>instruction path        see data path
>

Not so fast.  Each byte in the instruction space was put there by a human,
or translated from code written by a human. I-space is the only(?) factor
whose growth will always be linear rather than exponential.

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