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by nradov 4574 days ago
IBM System i (AS/400) servers have supported 128 bit pointers for decades.
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colanderman 4574 days ago
Nice. I suppose this is for memory-mapped file I/O? Or do those beasts really have access to terabytes of core? (In which case I will become jealous of my dad, who works with AS/400s.)
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nradov 4574 days ago
The former. They don't support any more physical memory than other high-end servers.
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