From: Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>
To: jw schultz <jw@pegasys.ws>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mapping 36 bit physical addresses into 32 bit virtual
Date: 16 Oct 2002 17:20:15 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buo4rbmvlq8.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021016072345.GE7844@pegasys.ws>
jw schultz <jw@pegasys.ws> writes:
> i distinctly remember the working with the newest R400x in 1993 which
> was still 32bit. I know MIPS went to 64bit sometime not too long
> after that (mid 90's?) but by then Alpha and Sparc had beaten them to
> the punch.
You're wrong -- the R4000 was absolutely 64-bit, and was released in
1991. The 64-bit sparc was circa '93, and alpha I dunno, but I think
'91-'92.
[note that I'm talking about chips, not software; I believe it was quite
a while before the OS stuff caught up with the 64-bit mips processors]
-Miles
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-16 8:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-15 16:59 Padraig O Mathuna
2002-10-15 20:51 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-10-15 22:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-10-15 23:34 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-16 7:23 ` jw schultz
2002-10-16 7:24 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-16 11:51 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-10-16 8:20 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2002-10-16 10:04 ` jw schultz
2002-10-16 11:59 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-10-16 23:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-16 16:35 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-10-16 11:46 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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