kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) (09/18/87)
In article <116200004@convexs> jthomp@convexs.UUCP writes: > [...] >Current 'stripe' limit is 2Gig, but you can have lots of them. >(sign extention prevents a bigger size.) Yeeps! Quick, let's all agree on the next standard word size, before everybody solves this one a different way. I vote for 64 bits, based on the "power of two" benefits, and several existing commercial precedents. Who would have believed we'd run off the end of 32 bits this soon, back in say 1967? Any takers on 128 bits to save having to do all this again in twenty years? (Take my word, the last twenty passed in a heartbeat, and I still hope to be raising hackles among computerists in 2007.) Kent, the man from xanth. "His expression lit up. 'Hey, you wouldn't be a dope smuggler, would you?' Rail looked confused. 'Why would anyone wish to smuggle stupidity when there is so much of it readily available?'" -- Alan Dean Foster, GLORY LANE