Having a 64 bit system at that time could have also really helped with implementing super fast virtual machines. You have so much space to store information in

Having a 64 bit system at that time could have also really helped with implementing super fast virtual machines. You have so much space to store information in pointers. Azul later realized some of these things on Java. Building a virtual machine and even language to take advantage of that from the ground up would have been cool.