[Info-vax] OpenVMS.Org quick pool

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On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 13:50 -0400, David Froble wrote:
> > No one makes Alpha chips any more, so it would be far more
> interesting
> > to see how well these could work at the 32 nm process node. VAXs are
> > strictly 32 bit architecture. 
> 
> I fail to understand what 32 bit or 64 bit has to do with speculation
> of what a past architecture might do with a modern process size ?
> 
> Yes, Alpha might be good too, but that wasn't the question. 

32 bit is limited to a maximum of 4GB. One won't be able to do a lot
with that with today's software requirements.
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