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It seems wasteful to me since it only had 2MB of RAM. It does say that instructions could be 32 or 64 bits long, but I would guess having 16 or 32 bit instructi
by forinti 7y ago
It seems wasteful to me since it only had 2MB of RAM. It does say that instructions could be 32 or 64 bits long, but I would guess having 16 or 32 bit instructions would let you pack more instructions into memory.
- olliej 7y agoWell 2mbit of ram was (at the time) a huge amount of ram. But I suspect it was so much “we want to address petabytes of ram” but rather “we are doing numerics that require 64 bits of accuracy”
- jacquesm 7y agoThat's not 'only' that's absolutely mind warping huge for the time when it was made. The physical dimensions of that memory were such that you could see the individual bits as tiny little ferrite cores.