Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!nelson
From: nelson@udel.EDU (Mark Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 64-bit addresses
Message-ID: <11679@nigel.udel.EDU>
Date: 20 Feb 90 17:20:20 GMT
References: <9708@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <1990Feb9.235927.5984@ultra.com>
Reply-To: nelson@ee.udel.edu (Mark Nelson)
Organization: University of Delaware
Lines: 20

In article <1990Feb9.235927.5984@ultra.com> ted@ultra.com (Ted Schroeder) writes:
>
>Use a Cray, they've got 64 bit addressing now.
>
>      Ted Schroeder                   ted@Ultra.com
>
>Disclaimer:  I don't even believe what I say, why should my company?

It's a good thing you don't believe what you say, because this is false.
Crays have either 24 or 32 bit addressing:

Cray-1:     24
Cray X/MP:  24
Cray-2:     32
Cray Y/MP:  24-bit Instruction, 32-bit Data
-- 

Mark Nelson                   ...!uunet!udel!nelson or nelson@udel.edu
This function is occasionally useful as an argument to other functions
that require functions as arguments. -- Guy Steele, Jr.