kinda funny how 32 bit is just a few bits too little for both RAM (most computers use 8GiB or so) and networking (IPv4 can give half of humanity an address)

and now we have way oversized solutions for both

@eloy we need 34 bit systems

@eloy Should have stuck with 36 bit words then?

@eloy STOP MULTIPLYING YOUR BITS

We had a solution for small value domains, it was called adding 1-2 more bits.

"We need 340 undecillion possible address values" statements dreamt by the utterly deranged

@eloy alternatively let's make a byte 9 bits and then we can keep 4 bytes and have 36 bits

@eloy also with time, where we're approaching 2^32 seconds since 1970.

@a51c oh yes, good one

@eloy see also: UNIX time

@q66 @eloy there is a reason why early computers had 36-bit or 18-bit words.

@TimWardCam @eloy hello PDP-10 days!

(I know other early systems used 36-bit or even 18-bit words as well, but the PDP-10 was the first system that I bumped into using it, so I got slightly confused coming from the 8-bit world of Sharp PC-1280 and Apple ][. Yes the Sharp had a 4-bit processor, but storage was 8-bit.)

@eloy having practically unlimited address space is nice even if you don't actually have that much RAM (or that many hosts, for networking)

@eloy 32bit adresses is also not enough to address every byte in your hard drive/SSD, so we should make 64bit adres- I mean assign the 32bit addresses to 4kb regions instead