[rescue] 128 bits...

[Dave McGuire]

On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 11:05 PM, deanders at pcisys.net wrote:
> That's actually interesting. Has it ever been tried before? 
> (Presumably not
> with a 64-bit address space...)
>
> Of course, you'd have to have almost completely new hardware...hmm.

   Yes. 8-)

> Admittedly, anything I say is from the perspective of a CS student who 
> just
> finished his mandatory x86 assembly class (not sure why we couldn't 
> have
> done MIPS, which is what at least one of the other two schools in the 
> CU
> system teach assembly on), so it's not like I have a complete grasp of 
> what
> would be involved.

   It seems that a lot of schools teach really outdated stuff.  Not sure 
why that is...familiarity perhaps?

       -Dave

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