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From: peralta@pinocchio.Encore.COM (Rick Peralta)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: bigger longs (64 bits)
Summary: here we go again
Message-ID: <11071@encore.Encore.COM>
Date: 6 Feb 90 22:09:44 GMT
Sender: news@Encore.COM
Reply-To: peralta@pinocchio.UUCP (Rick Peralta)
Organization: Encore Computer Corp, Marlboro, MA
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What are the feelings here regarding 64 bit longs?
There are applications and devces that are breaking
Gigabyte limits of the 32 bit archetecture and it
seems that we will be stuck in the too small address
space again.

What platforms are using the 64 bit ALUs?

Is anyone using 64 bit pointers (yet)?

Does anyone have arguments (applications) for using 64 bits?

A few that come to mind are:

	. just plain math resolution
	. Very large virtual memory
	. larger disk storage
	  (no joke single volumes will be breaking lseek() soon)


 - Rick
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