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From: tihor@acf4.NYU.EDU (Stephen Tihor)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 64-bit addresses
Message-ID: <12780027@acf4.NYU.EDU>
Date: 13 Feb 90 02:54:00 GMT
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Organization: New York University
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My work with NYU Academnic Computing Facility's computer of the month
club membership (actually more of a mini-super of the month) has
exposed me to a number of vendors systems who tried to provide 64 bits
or better (because their FP was 64 bits or better and 64 bit integers
were cheap and very useful for their target codes).

Most of these systems have failed to support the 64bits for long (ELXSI
is partcularlt pblatant example.) Their problems were mostly the growth
of UNIX with the co-comittant use of C and the lousy portability of BSD
(although much GNUcode is also written with the ingrained knowledge
that int = long = 32bits, etc.  And FORTRAN deserves and least a third
of the blame.