Vincent Manis wrote:
That's my point. I first heard about Moore's Law in 1974 from a talk given by Alan Kay. At about the same time, Gordon Bell had concluded, independently, that one needs extra address bit every 18 months
Hmmm. At that rate, we'll use up the extra 32 bits in our 64 bit pointers in another 48 years. So 128-bit machines ought to be making an appearance around about 2057, and then we'll be all set until 2153 -- if we're still using anything as quaintly old-fashioned as binary memory addresses by then... -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
