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$v5n_at_nntpd.lkg.dec.com>#1/1
Date: 1996/01/09
Message-ID: <4cuko9$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.comReceived on Tue Jan 09 1996 - 00:00:00 CET