On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 13:55:30 +0300, Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> 
wrote:

>What problem would this solve?

It would set the long-term model for the
mainframe, instead of being stuck with
24/31-bit software for eternity.

>This would be of zero use for existing applications,

I don't agree. Existing applications can be
modified to be 32-bit clean and have maximum
possible address space as per 32-bit.

> and new applications should simply use 64 bit.

I don't agree that all new applications should
be 64 bit. That is overkill. 32-bit/4 GiB should
be enough for almost all commercial applications.

BFN. Paul.

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