RE: power line (AS/400) article in computerworld -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: RE: power line (AS/400) article in computerworld
From: "James HH. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 08:20:19 -0700
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And why would you need pointers that large anyway? 2^512 = 1.3e+154
according to MS Calculator or about 1.5 googols, so you could "list of
the state of every particle at every measurable unit of time since the
Big Bang" (wikipedia) and still have 1 x 10**14 or so addresses leftover.

to which I replied with the question:

Is that at molecular resolution, or quantum resolution?

Or maybe Mr. Richter isn't trying to invent the particle transporter at all. Maybe he's building HARLIE, and his next project is the "Graphic Omniscient Device."

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JHHL

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