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

[Arne Vajhøj]

khfp09 wrote:
> 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?

Ooops.

Address space doubles => number of bits required +1

Sorry for the confusion.

Arne