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From: sb463ba@d250-hrz.uni-duisburg.de (Georg Bauhaus)
Subject: Re: Y21C Bug
Date: 2000/01/06
Date: 2000-01-06T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8527o7$e2o$1@news-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8505tc$be4$1@nnrp1.deja.com

Robert Dewar (robert_dewar@my-deja.com) wrote:
: In article <84vev2$7p4@ftp.kvaerner.com>,

: Besides which, many applications are smaller and run faster in
: 32-bit mode, so why would you switch them in any case?

If increasing word size is about addressing larger memories
and packing more ops in a word, (which might not alway be achievable?)
why is it that relatively few money is spent on alternative improvements,
like parallelism related research and hardware, at least PR wise?
I have a feeling like there are some valuable pieces of technology
lying around still rather unnoticed. Like transputers?

Enough lament, this question may just reveal my nearly total
lack of knowledge of hardware then... ;/

Georg Bauhaus




  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-01-06  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-01-02  0:00 Y21C Bug reason67
2000-01-02  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-03  0:00   ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-03  0:00     ` Jeff Creem
2000-01-03  0:00       ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-03  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-04  0:00       ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-04  0:00         ` Samuel Tardieu
2000-01-04  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-05  0:00           ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-05  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-06  0:00               ` Richard D Riehle
2000-01-06  0:00               ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2000-01-06  0:00                 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-06  0:00               ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-06  0:00                 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-05  0:00             ` Al Christians
2000-01-06  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-06  0:00               ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-06  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-06  0:00                   ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-06  0:00                     ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-07  0:00                     ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-07  0:00                       ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-07  0:00                         ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-04  0:00                           ` Florian Weimer
2000-02-04  0:00                             ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-04  0:00                               ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-11  0:00                         ` Mats Weber
2000-01-11  0:00                           ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-12  0:00                             ` Mats Weber
2000-01-12  0:00                               ` Thierry Lelegard
2000-01-13  0:00                                 ` Mats Weber
2000-01-13  0:00                                 ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-13  0:00                                   ` Thierry Lelegard
2000-01-13  0:00                                   ` Larry Kilgallen
     [not found]                               ` <387dfb1e.cbbf14c7@mail.com>
2000-01-13  0:00                                 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-11  0:00                     ` Mats Weber
2000-01-07  0:00                   ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-07  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-04  0:00         ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-04  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-04  0:00         ` Charles Hixson
2000-01-04  0:00           ` Keith Thompson
2000-01-05  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-05  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-05  0:00             ` Y21C Bug :-) Charles Hixson
2000-01-06  0:00               ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-07  0:00                 ` Keith Thompson
2000-01-07  0:00                   ` Robert A Duff
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