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

Marc Schlensog mschlens+news at gmail.com
Thu Oct 15 15:20:19 EDT 2009


On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:10:19 -0400
Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:

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> The general accepted definition of a X bit computer is the size
> of addresses not the size of registers.
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Maybe generally accepted by you, but obviously wrong. Try the other way
around (and check out what the address sizes of AMD64/EM64t, 64bit
Power and a few other 64bit architectures are).

Marc




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