Actually there's only room for a 96 bit address in that 16 bytes. The
rest are capability bits that limit what the user can do with that
address.
-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Steve.Hinrichs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 8:09 AM
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Subject: Re: i5/OS 32 or 64-bit ?
Larry - Thanks for the clarification. I was thinking about hardware,
not
os when I was replying. I should have remembered Dr. Franks comments
about 128bit in his book.
Steve
> message: 5
> date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:02:20 -0400
> from: "Larry Bolhuis" <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: Re: i5/OS 32 or 64-bit ?
>
> Careful! The O/S itself is 128bit and has been forever. It
currently
runs
> on 64 bit hardware but all the pointers etc are all set for
128bits(16
> bytes).
>
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