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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 16bit C compilers
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 09:58:49 +0000
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ggm@apnic.net (George Michaelson) writes:

> MIPS sell more CPU's for embedded purposes than core desktop/scientific
> computing don't they? I thought it was the #1 chip for lasers and other
> devices.

Last I heard a MIPS was a 32 bit processor.  

> And games consoles are 64bit, and do not have anything like large enough
> memory. I know 4mbyte is not as constrained as the 16-bit controller in a
> washingmachine, but for once, the rendered video framebuf's probably are a
> legit use of what memory there is there. Code can't take it all.

I don't know how much memory they have at all.  Do you?