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Re: 64-bit

From: Raikov, Lo <Lo.Raikov@MISYS.COM>
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Even Microsoft has a hard time imagining what to do with 64 bits.
Here is from the introduction to "64-bit Windows":

Platform SDK: 64-bit Windows Programming

Introducing 64-bit Windows
A 64-bit operating system supports far more physical memory than a 32-bit
operating system. For example, 32-bit Windows NTŪ supports 4 gigabytes of
memory, while 64-bit Windows NT supports 16 terabytes of memory.

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16 terabytes? that's not 64 bits; that's 44 bits.

So, as Larry Seltzer pointed out (the origin of this thread),
64-bit computing isn't really here yet.
And as we have explored in this thread, that is true for
the AS/400 as well.

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