On 28/05/2020 12:45, Gareth Evans wrote:
> On 28/05/2020 11:36, Gordon Henderson wrote:
>> Do keep up at the back..
>>
>> https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/8gb-raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-now-at-75/
>>
>> https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=117&t=275370
>>
>> -Gordon
>>
>
> That is excellent news.
>
> I wonder if it also includes the necessary assemblers and compilers to
> produce 64 bit programs?
>
> IMHO this will be computing coming of age for the man
> on the Clapham Omnibus, for no longer will it be necessary
> to program one's way around the limitations of processor design
> because with so much memory, take the same design principle
> that made Admiral Fisher's Dreadnought battleship design
> so capable, big guns only, make all storage, even for
> 8 bit bytes, 64 bits.
>
> 64-bit-only BCPL anybody?
>

PS ! ! ! !

Not forgetting that all instructions encode into 32 bits, so
a compiler based on 64 bit data alone will be struggling to
output dollops of 32 bits, perhaps a variation of the PEEK and
POKE so favoured by early domestiv BASICs?

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