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From: sbf10@uts.amdahl.com (Samuel Fuller)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 64-bit addresses
Message-ID: <4cES02Kd8cLZ01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 27 Feb 90 03:37:49 GMT
References: <9708@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <20270@cfctech.cfc.com> <36080@mips.mips.COM> <168@csinc.UUCP> <193@zds-ux.UUCP> <36439@mips.mips.COM> <52651@bbn.COM> <3786@uceng.UC.EDU>
Reply-To: sbf10@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Samuel Fuller)
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In article <3786@uceng.UC.EDU> dmocsny@uceng.UC.EDU (daniel mocsny) writes:
>In article <52651@bbn.COM> lkaplan@BBN.COM (Larry Kaplan) writes:
>>In article <36439@mips.mips.COM> mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) writes:
>>>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.
>>
>>Too late, such a system has already been SOLD.  BBN ACI just announced ...
>
>Now that this barrier is history, how long will we wait for the following?
>
>1. The value of computers sold with 1 GB of physical memory to
>exceed 1% of the total computer market value.

Most likely, this limit has already been broken.  I good percentage of
the mainframes sold today are shipped with more than 1GB of memory
installed. The maximum memory configuration sold on Amdahl mainframes
is 512M main and 2G expanded.  I believe that most other mainframe
suppliers are in the same ballpark.

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