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From: ldm@texhrc.UUCP (Lyle Meier)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 64-bit addresses
Summary: We need greater that 4 gb of address space today.
Message-ID: <391@texhrc.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 90 18:04:28 GMT
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We have a class of problems that need greater than 4 gb of address space.
One such problem is a 1000x1000x1000 wave propagation problem. We would not
like to have to write our own paging and swapping code do to this. While
currently this is a requirement on mini-supers etc, soon with workstations
getting close to that power level, we would like to be able to run the
problem on the workstation. A segmented architecture is ok if it doesn't
restrict the application program in the size of arrays etc. I.e. the
application program should think the address space is flat.