[Info-vax] OpenVMS.Org quick pool

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2012-08-21 18:15:25 +0000, Single Stage to Orbit said:

> 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.

TKB


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