[Info-vax] OpenVMS I64 V8.1 "Evaluation Release"?

[John Reagan]

"glen herrmannsfeldt"  wrote in message 
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>As far as I know, not. And even if they could, no-one could afford
>to buy that much memory. Prices are approaching $1/GB, and 64 bits
>addresses 2**34 GB, or about $16 billion. Well, Maybe a few people
>could afford it. There might be enough bits in the page tables,
>but they don't put all the pins on the chip.

And to add...

You couldn't cool it and given the current density of DIMMs, I don't think 
there is any memory interface that can host that many DIMMs at any transfer 
rate.

John