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- From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
- Subject: Re: Motorola's 68060 for the Mac
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.195649.2772@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom. San Jose, California
- References: <1993Jan18.024452.20791@bilby.cs.uwa.edu.au> <C11738.6n9@unix.amherst.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:56:49 GMT
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- hjwulfso@unix.amherst.edu (Harris Wulfson) writes ...
- >Quinn (quinn@cs.uwa.edu.au) wrote:
- >
- >}
- >} But when are we going to switch to 64 bit addressing on Macintoshes?
- >} Are we going to have 64 bit clean problems! Hmmm. That's still a few
- >} years down the track (but not that many that we shouldn't be thinking
- >} about it).
- >
- >Are you planning on using more than a gig of RAM any time soon? Or am I
- >missing the point...?
-
- You (both) may be missing the point. Having a 64-bit address space
- means that you can have multiple CPUs (like on a network) all share
- the same address space. That leads to some interesting possibilities
- regarding the sharing of CPU resources.
-
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- Ray Fischer "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth
- ray@netcom.com than lies." -- Friedrich Nietszsche
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