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

[Mark Metson <markm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 15 May 2002, Reinier Post wrote:

> 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.

Nonetheless his idea of several 128-bit processors, one each for each 
subsystem such as graphics, sound, disk, etc etc etc, did seem to make a 
lot of sense. The lgihbulbs were going on even if some folk may have had 
different ideas about which tech they would end up buying.  ;-)

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