[Info-vax] OpenVMS.Org quick pool

[David Froble]

Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> 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.

1) the question wasn't about address space

2) it depends upon the software.  Weendoze bloatware might be an issue

3) There have been systems that have been able to handle more memory than their 
address size.  PDP-11, x86, ....