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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: is Vax addressing sane today
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On Mon, 09 Sep 2024 08:03:00 GMT, Anton Ertl wrote:

> ... ARM T32 has two widths, as has RV64GC (and RISC-V has provisions for
> additional lengths, but AFAIK nobody uses them yet); there was also ROMP
> and MIPS16.

That’s all very well. But none of them go to the extremes that VAX did: 
37:1, remember.