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Re: respectful slightly dumb question about 64 bit computing.....



On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 08:09:37AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 10/29/06 07:22, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> > Dear Debian folks,
> > [snip]
> > Let's suppose that money was no object and we managed in some
> > technical feat to construct a computer that could have a 64 bit
> > chip in it that would be properly hooked up to 16 exabytes of
> > RAM.
> > 
> > If I had such a computer in my possession and I offered to donate
> > to the Debian community how would it respond?
> > 
> [snip]
> 
> It would say,
[snip]
> 
> 2. Why did you use a year's production of the world's RAM
>    production for your own machine?  Now, no one else can
>    buy a computer, and thousands of companies and millions
>    of people have been put of of work!!!

Not to mention the widows and orphans :-(

-- hendrik



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