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JoeAltmaier
on Aug 21, 2014
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RISC creator is pushing open source chips
AH - counting disk space. Yes, if you mapped all that into one computer's address space you can make the math work out.
vidarh
on Aug 21, 2014
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I've made the point several times that people do in fact expect to be able to mmap() files far bigger than physical memory on larger systems.
Purely for RAM we can survive with 64 bit for maybe a decade extra.
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