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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 08:06:54 -0700
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Geoff Collyer wrote:
> So far the Plan 9 compilers implement a 64-bit long long type but
> nobody has yet tried making pointers 64 bits.  Even the alpha port
> uses 32-bit addressing.  Nobody here but the biologists has yet been
> complaining about feeling squeezed in a 32-bit address space.

Are your biologists doing bioinformatics work with Plan 9?

That must be interesting to say the least.  When do we get to see the
statistical analysis of their GenBank Venti archive?  ;)

-Jack

(Seriously, it does sound like fun.)