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[filmscanners] Re: Digital Darkroom Computer Builders?
- To: lexa@www.lexa.ru
- Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Digital Darkroom Computer Builders?
- From: "" <petru.lauric@rcn.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 14:27:25 -0400
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> From: "Major A" <andras@users.sourceforge.net>
> > > Also, 64 bits take us to the physical limits
> > > of semiconductors ...
> >
> > How?
>
> As I said: 2^64 = 18446744073709551616. That's how much RAM can be
> directly addressed using 64-bit address registers. Compare this to
> roughly 10^23 silicon atoms in a large die like a CPU or RAM
> chip. That is the bulk silicon, only the surface of which is used, so
> more realistically, only 10^17 silicon atoms are actually involved in
> the electronic device at all. You would have multiple bits per silicon
> atom -- that just isn't going to happen.
>
Huh? Okay, this OT discussion is going way beyond the limits of the absurd.
Tony, please stop this thread ...
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