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From: sb463ba@d250-hrz.uni-duisburg.de (Georg Bauhaus)
Subject: Re: Y21C Bug
Date: 2000/01/06
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References: <84nqbo$q28$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
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 <84t966$be0$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <84vev2$7p4@ftp.kvaerner.com>
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Organization: Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet - Gesamthochschule Duisburg
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Date: 2000-01-06T00:00:00+00:00
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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