>From: Richard Theis [mailto:theis_richard@fr.ibm.com]
>virtual address will NEVER be reused, in the life of the system...

I was unaware of that. If true it's a dangerous design decision, IMHO. The
"pool is so large" reason for not reusing addresses is akin to the famous,
albeit not actually said, quote of Bill Gates of "No one will ever need more
than 640K of memory"

-Walden

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