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From: lkaplan@bbn.com (Larry Kaplan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 64-bit addresses
Summary: too late
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Date: 26 Feb 90 17:25:47 GMT
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In article <36439@mips.mips.COM> mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) writes:
>
>In any case, let me make a really conservative bet:
>No later than 1991, somebody will purchase:
>	a) A microprocessor-based system.
>	b) Delivered with 1GB of memory.
>	c) And they'll really want more physical memory
>	d) And they'll dislike an addressing limit of 2GB-4G.
>-- 
>-john mashey	DISCLAIMER: <generic disclaimer, I speak for me only, etc>
>UUCP: 	{ames,decwrl,prls,pyramid}!mips!mash  OR  mash@mips.com
>DDD:  	408-991-0253 or 408-720-1700, x253
>USPS: 	MIPS Computer Systems, 930 E. Arques, Sunnyvale, CA 94086

Too late, such a system has already been SOLD.  BBN ACI just announced the
sale of a 126-node microprocessor-based system (TC2000) to Lawrence Livermore
National Labs.  The first part of the order calls for a 63-node machine
to be delivered in 3/90.  This system has 1008 Megabytes of physical memory
(16 Megabytes short of 1 Gigabyte).  The 126-node machine 
(having 2016 Megabytes) is due sometime near the end of 1990.
See the article in the 2/21/90 issue of the San Fransisco Chronicle for
some more details of the sale.

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