On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 12:32 -0600, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > So, I would just echo what you said: we hardly will see the need in > 128 bit CPUs soon. (BTW, I'm glad to hear the choice which is power > of 2. As, in general, the length of CPU word can be anything: 17, > 89, ... I'm not mentioning 1 which is used in calculators, as 1 > _is_ power of 2 ;-) Never experienced 17 or 89 bit machines. In the past I worked on 8 bit, 16 bit and a very large and expensive 36-bit machine (so expensive was it that the manufacturer offered bribes - my then boss's boss got caught and was allowed to resign with an unblemished record.) Can not image cheap electronic calculators working with 1 bit CPUs. Time to create a Centos OT mailing list ? -- Regards, Paul. England, EU.