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> The main thing I was taking issue with was your initial statement "With 48 bits as a hard limit of what fits into a register" not how many bits of the register or memory address are functionally meaningful.

Oh, Oh!

That was a hypothetical talking about 48 bit CPUs that grew out of 12 bit CPUs.

That's why I said 384 tera-octets and something we would stick with.



Makes sense :) thanks




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