[rescue] Solaris on a PPC

[Dave McGuire]

On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 02:19 PM, Andrew Weiss wrote:
> So does anyone think we will eventually see 128 bit architectures?

   For technical reasons?  No.  For marketing reasons?  Probably.

   So, probably.

   This isn't really a "640K ought to be enough for anybody" situation.  
Unless you're talking about SIMD instructions like VIS, I see no real 
need for a 128-bit data path.  If we start seeing more applications in 
which larger-than-64-bit numbers are being manipulated using iterative 
techniques, then that may change.

        -Dave

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