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From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Overflows (lisp fixnum-bignum conversion)
Date: 1997/04/07
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Larry Kilgallen <kilgallen@eisner.decus.org> wrote in article
<1997Apr7.130018.1@eisner>...
[...]
> [...]  Disks I use hold 1 GB, while others
> can hold 4 or 9 GB.  64 bits allows me to address the contents of about
> 2,000,000,000 of the 9 GB drives.  How many disk drives have ever been
> built ?


Already IBM scientists (at Boca Raton, is it?) are building prototype '3D'
computers - which use laser holography within a block of a very special
material which switches its angle of polarisation very fast at a certain
precise temperature - which promise to be able to store the equivalent of
2^64 bytes of information easily (probably a lot more). Such computers
would certainly have the potential for outsmarting humans by several orders
of magnitude. This is actually true. Sleep well!

Nick.