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

[Arne Vajhøj]

JF Mezei wrote:
> Bob Koehler wrote:
> 
>>    I think there's an industry average that it doubles every decade to
>>    15 years.  As in 8 bits in the 60's, 32 bits by the late 70's, 64
>>    bits by the middle 90's, 128 bits by 2020.
> 
> Question is whether this will continue forever. There comes a time where
> there are enough bits to do the work effiecently.
> 
> And remember that the more bits you have, the bigger the instructions
> are, which means the more memory you need and the more cache you need in
> the cpu because your code takes up more room.

And?

Systems get more and more RAM and cache all the time.

Arne