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[Steve Litt]

Jon "maddog" Hall via Ale said on Fri, 17 May 2024 05:55:19 -0400

>I asked them "What problem do you need that much address space to
>solve? What is the practical need?"

RAM.

Some day Terrabytes of RAM won't be enough. Kinda like it turned out
640K wasn't enough :-)

Imagine modeling the entire Milky Way looking for asteroid/comet
impactors.

That being said, I liked Scott McBrien's points about extreme wastage.

SteveT

Steve Litt 

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