Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > Exactly the same thing was said of 32 bits, and 16 bits, and even 8 bits no > doubt. Engineers _always_ get it wrong, and they _always_ refuse to believe > that they should build in more capacity for the future.
I doubt that, what was probably said was, "ok, we can build an X bit design, but how can we stretch it for the current technology?" Having worked in hardware engineering since the introduction of the 8088/86 architecture, I am much more amazed that we are still tied to its oddities. Its being stretched fairly thin. The problems of running out of physical memory are little to do with the limit of 2/4 Gig. Its far more to do with the MicroBloat OS and associated programs. Photoshop is a good example of something that comes from an atrocious memory model, and fails to ditch it for a better one - OSX should drag it into reality. We need 64 bit - not for better MM w.r.t programs, but addressability for massive file systems. Its arseholes like us who continue to accept bloat and poor coding - throwing more money and hardware at what we think is our problem. Its the "Software Engineers" fault, although I dread to think we can classify all programmers as SE's. You might note that Im a Unix/Linux user, who suffers far less than MSoft people. (As a non Mac user, whats the situation like regarding applications on OSX anyway?) AND! after watching the "Greatest Briton" program which looked at the work of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, I cannot believe you are referring to Engineers in such a way :) I regularly travel through his 1st tunnel (Wapping 1839), which has stood the test of being built for foot, and now carries tube trains. He was one hell of a man - and one staggering Engineer - gets my vote. bert -- Linux - reaches the parts that other beers fail to reach. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body