2 Oct 2000 Michael   » (Journeyer)

ErikLevy: More on 64 bit systems. Besides Nemesis, You might want to look at Opal done at U-dub, they have a paper on just what I hinted at yesterday: "Opal: A Single Address Space System for 64-Bit Architectures". In relation, I was chatting with a friend about this and he said that the original Alpha chips, despite using 64 bit addresses internally, only had 43 (or there abouts) address pins, as at the time they didn't think people were likely to use more than that outside the processor.

Community suggestion: I'm a big believer in seperating style and content - thus do my documenting in LaTeX. However an often cited complaint is that unless you really know LaTeX well, defining your own document styles is hard, so you're stuck with the default LaTeX styles, which can wear a bit thin after a while and makes it hard to create a doc that stands out from the crowd. My suggestion is that we need a themes.org for LaTeX, somewhere where people can upload and download LaTex style files. What do people think? We could even shove the arhive on g141.com - though I've not got the time to do anything as glitzy as themes.org :-)

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