[CentOS] Centos7 Annoyances

[John R Pierce]

On 10/31/2014 8:38 PM, Always Learning wrote:
> Hmm, I wonder when 128-bit processors will appear

a 32 bit address got us up to 4,000,000,000 (4 billion) bytes of 
directly addressible memory.

a 64 bit address gets you into a 18,440,000,000,000,000,000 byte address 
space.   I think thats 18 zetabytes.   It will be a long time before 
we'll need a larger address space.



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