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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:46:37 -0800
From: "Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan" <vdharani@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Current status of amd64 port?
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if i am right, one of the other reasons for moving to 64-bit space is
that the memory-mapped PCI devices  (say) tend to require more and
more address space.