Re: Sybase 11 TPCC on DEC (your comments please)

From: Lisa Roderick <roderick_at_eps.enet.dec.com>
Date: 1996/01/09
Message-ID: <4cuko9$v5n_at_nntpd.lkg.dec.com>#1/1


In article <4clv72$4ql_at_xmission.xmission.com>, butlerm_at_xmission.xmission.com says...
>
> Among other things the Alpha processor is a true 64 bit chip
>which is greate for implementing relational databases because a 64 bit address
>space is large enough to map nearly every disk on the planet into virtual
>memory...

Make that more than every disk ever manufactured.

8 bit = your business card

16 bit = your desktop 
32 bit = a downtown city block
64 bit = almost twice the land mass of this planet
-- 
Lisa Roderick
Applications Systems Engineering Performance Group
Digital Equipment Corporation
Nashua, NH
lisa.roderick_at_zko.mts.dec.com
Received on Tue Jan 09 1996 - 00:00:00 CET

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