RE: why the 16meg space size limit? -- MI400

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Thanks for the insight, Leif. As always, enlightening.

Joe

From: Joe Pluta

To: MI400@midrange.com

Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 11:20 AM

Subject: RE: why the 16meg space size limit?

Leif, what's stopping them from using some of those leading zeros as real address bits in some future release? As long as nothing requires them to be zero, they would be backwards compatible.

====> hard to get uniform address space for a large array. Nothing is impossible. In DOS one could also

play all kind of tricks, it just became harder and harder and uglier and uglier.

in C (the new compiler) and in Java addresses are 64 bits. I bet a lot of code will break if that goes up to

say 80 bits. But, hey, I don't want to start a war here. I was just trying to explain to Steve where the

limit came from.

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