1 Jun
2001
1 Jun
'01
1:45 a.m.
Tim Peters writes:
When KSR died, the KSR-3 on the drawing board had 128-bit registers. I was never quite sure why the founders thought that would be a killer selling point, but it wasn't for floats. Down in the trenches we thought it would be mondo cool to have an address space so large that for the rest of our lives we'd never need to bother calling free() again <0.8 wink>.
And given what (little) I know about the memory architecture on those things, that actually would have be quite reasonable on that platform! -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> PythonLabs at Digital Creations