On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 15:16:28 -0400, Steve wrote in message <20180620151628.0e132...@mydesk.domain.cxm>:
> There was a discussion of whether to retain 32 bit, and that brought > up another question in my mind: When will we have 128 bit computing? > > > 1971: 4bit: Intel 4004 > 1974: 8bit: Intel 8080 > 1978: 16bit: Intel 8086 > 1985: 32bit: Intel 20386 > 2003: 64bit: AMD Opteron / Pentium 4 EO revision > > When are we going to have 128 bit microprocessors? ..2000?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta_Crusoe 256bit?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta_Efficeon ..the why not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta ..maybe when the industry has matured a little more? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
