Subject: Re: CVS commit: src
To: Brian D Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
From: I. Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: port-vax
Date: 04/16/1999 10:14:50
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 04:38:33PM -0700, Brian D Chase wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Andrew Gillham wrote:
> 
> > Well, Jason is probably thinking relative to Alpha servers with 2GB of
> > memory. :-)  That is where the capital 'L' in Lot came from I guess!
> 
> Yeah but code density and data-alignment-wise, 2GB of RAM on an Alpha is
> probably equivalent to 512MB on a VAX.  Hell, on a VAX we can manipulate
> data in the form of bitstrings which don't even have to be located on byte
> boundaries... just pick it up in the middle of a byte somewhere.

680x0 (with x>1) can do that, too. So what?

	-is