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

[Neil Rieck]

On Oct 14, 9:31 am, "John Reagan" <johnrrea... at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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

This seems more probable. We haven't fully utilized the 64-bit
extensions to x86 so 128-bit would be marketing overkill

:-)

NSR