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Old 31st March 2009
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There was an article about this somewhere, but.. 128-bit is probably the end of the line.
You're probably right, by ~8,800 A.D. or so the earth will probably be a pile of atomized ash, by way of a jihad against the thinking machines. So by the time anything requiring more limits then a true 128-bit architecture can provide comes on line, we'll be to darn busy to care ;-)
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Only part of going to 64 bit is the <4G address space. The other part is being able to crunch 64 bits on each clock cycle. True, hardly anyone is programming to use this ability, but it will come.
As the More's law corollaries continue to hand us more and more transistors on a platter, we'll have to find somethings to do with them. Part of that will be 128 bits per byte.
(Remember: 128 bits is an ipv6 address: big routers will want to be able to handle these addresses in one swop: So we will see specialized 128-bit processors in the near future!)
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Really? Why? I seriously doubt we'll need systems with >= 16384 Petabytes of memory.
You'll need it to run Windows9.
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You'll need it to run Windows9.
Fortunately, that won't be happening.
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