[Info-vax] OT: IA-128 ???

[John Reagan]

My understanding from following various links is just support for some new 
128-bit multiply instructions on some future X86-64 based platform.  That 
got misquoted as IA-128 and then people started to think about 128-bit 
virtual addresses.  There would be no need to actually implement 128-bit 
physical addresses as I suspect you could neither afford or connect that 
much memory.  Even for a 128-bit virtual address space, you better get lots 
of the 1TB drives for pagefiles.

But I could be wrong.

John