[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Compaq Tru64 Unix Alpha platform - Building freeciv

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On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 08:12:31AM -0300, Mark Metson wrote:

> This has really helped me to see that my friend Reverend Perv was quite 
> likely correct back when the 286 came out that the best solution would be 
> to jump directly to 128 bits due to that being sufficient bits to 
> individually address each fundamental particle in the universe

It was too late by then - C is older.  When C was designed, having
128 bit pointers to address a 4K memory space, or 128 bit ints,
was completely unacceptable: memory was much too expensive for that
kind of waste.  This was also true for the 286.

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Reinier