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

[khfp09]

On Oct 14, 6:12 pm, Arne Vajhøj <a... at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
[...]
> I don't think anyone doubt that we will need 128 bit computers
> at some point in time.
>
> But not in 2012-2013 where Windows 8 is planned.
>
> When this news was discussed in another forum I suggested
> a rule saying that the number of bits required doubles
> every year.

I don't think you really mean "doubles".  By that reasoning,
if we had needed 32 bits in 2008 (for example), we would've
needed 64 bits this year and 128 bits in 2010, etc.

I don't know what you *actually* mean; perhaps that the
number of bits required increases by 2 bits each year???
That would be something like 32 bits in 1990, 52 bits in
2010 (requiring 64 bits under the hood), and we wouldn't
need anything beyond 64 bits, e.g., 128 bits, until 2016.
Is that what you were thinking?

> Not a very precise rules. But it gives some indication of how
> far out the 128 bit is.

     -Ken