Subj : Feature request: soft IPv6 force
To   : mark lewis
From : Gerrit Kuehn
Date : Sat Apr 28 2018 04:07 pm

Hello mark!

28 Apr 18 06:43, mark lewis wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:


ml> the adoption of 32bit took a while... the adoption of 64bit is taking
ml> longer... i'm surprised they haven't announced 128bit yet so we can
ml> have this ""discussion"" again in another 50 years when 128bit is
ml> still just being adopted ;)

Depends on what you expect from "128bit". Systems using 128bit integers exist
since 1970 or so. IPv6 uses 128bit addresses, ZFS is a 128bit file system.
Modern GPUs have a 128bit data bus.

CPUs with 128bit for multimedia have been designed already in the late 1990's:

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<https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/799870/>
A microprocessor with a 128-bit CPU, ten floating-point MAC's, four floating-point dividers, and an MPEG-2 decoder
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Regards,
Gerrit

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