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

[Arne Vajhøj]

Marc Schlensog wrote:
> 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.
> ----8<----------
> 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).

AMD64/EM64T : the architecture support 64 bit virtual addresses
(current implementations does only support 48 bit)

I would assume IBM Power to do the same. I know that Itanium does.

Arne