RE: i5/OS 32 or 64-bit ?

["Dan Kimmel" <dkimmel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually there's only room for a 96 bit address in that 16 bytes. The
rest are capability bits that limit what the user can do with that
address. 

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Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 8:09 AM
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Subject: Re: i5/OS 32 or 64-bit ?

   Larry - Thanks for the clarification.  I was thinking about hardware,
not
   os when I was replying.  I should have remembered Dr. Franks comments
   about 128bit in his book.

   Steve

   > message: 5
   > date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:02:20 -0400
   > from: "Larry Bolhuis" <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>
   > subject: Re: i5/OS 32 or 64-bit ?
   >
   > Careful!  The O/S itself is 128bit and has been forever. It
currently
   runs
   > on 64 bit hardware but all the pointers etc are all set for
128bits(16
   > bytes).
   >
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