Tim Peters writes: > When KSR died, the KSR-3 on the drawing board had 128-bit registers. I was > never quite sure why the founders thought that would be a killer selling > point, but it wasn't for floats. Down in the trenches we thought it would > be mondo cool to have an address space so large that for the rest of our > lives we'd never need to bother calling free() again <0.8 wink>. And given what (little) I know about the memory architecture on those things, that actually would have be quite reasonable on that platform! -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> PythonLabs at Digital Creations
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