[Info-vax] OpenVMS I64 V8.1 "Evaluation Release"?
Fritz Wuehler
fritz at spamexpire-201203.rodent.frell.theremailer.net
Fri Mar 23 13:45:21 EDT 2012
glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
> Fritz Wuehler <fritz at spamexpire-201203.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> wrote:
> > Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>
> >> No, the z/Arch, even in its latest implementation, does not give you 64
> >> physical address pins out of the CPU, so no way you could hook up 2**64
> >> bytes of physical memory.
>
> > Do you have a pinout handy? If so, I defer to you.
>
> As far as I know, they don't sell the chips separately from whole
> machines, and don't publish data sheets. There might some
> maintenance manuals, but likely not.
If so we need to agree it's all conjecture and the architecture may support
64 bit physical addresses or it may not. If you don't have the pinout and
the block diagram or some other documentation then nobody knows.
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