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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?

64-bit BCPL has been a thing for a long time. Just re-compile the compiler
and you'll have it. Should take all of a second or so.

-Gordon
(BCPL user, but sticking to 32-bit on a 16 bit CPU with an 8-bit memory
bus, for now :-)

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