Topic: Why did computer bits stop at 64?

Anonymous A started this discussion 7 years ago #81,261

We had 8 bit, 16 bit, 32 bit, and now 64 bit processors. Why don't we have 128 bit yet???

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 5 minutes later[^] [v] #943,610

We do!!!

Svet !1P9whVu7OE joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 2 minutes later, 7 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #943,611

I heard it's because anything past 64 poses a risk. Since if the computers get too smart they could start a rebelion.

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 3 minutes later, 11 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #943,612

https://medium.com/rigetti/the-rigetti-128-qubit-chip-and-what-it-means-for-quantum-df757d1b71ea

https://www.dwavesys.com/tutorials/background-reading-series/introduction-d-wave-quantum-hardware

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 12 minutes later, 23 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #943,618

@OP
The only real reason we went from 32bit to 64bit was to address more memory. With 64-Bit processors you could theoretically have 16 exabytes (16,000,000,000 GB) of RAM... so no real need to upgrade at the moment. Your 64bits is fine.

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tteh ? !MemesToDNA joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 4 minutes later, 28 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #943,621

128 bits is an insane amount of memory.

Anonymous E replied with this 7 years ago, 1 minute later, 30 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #943,622

@previous (tteh ? !MemesToDNA)
in the year 2046, Intel announces their new 128-bit processor and humanity builds a Dyson sphere supercomputer worthy of running it.

Big Daddy Derek™ !Uvm54ORbmo joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #943,657

@OPenis
The Sega Dreamcast has 128 bits. Thanks.

Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 3 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #943,660

Why not 65 bits?

lol replied with this 7 years ago, 51 seconds later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #943,661

@943,657 (Big Daddy Derek™ !Uvm54ORbmo)
The Dreamcast's main CPU is a two-way 360 MIPS superscalar Hitachi SH-4 32-bit RISC clocked at 200 MHz with an 8 Kbyte instruction cache and 16 Kbyte data cache and a 128-bit graphics-

Big Daddy Derek™ !Uvm54ORbmo replied with this 7 years ago, 40 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #943,682

@previous (lol)
Correct. It has 128 computer bits. Thanks.

lol replied with this 7 years ago, 5 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #943,685

@previous (Big Daddy Derek™ !Uvm54ORbmo)
Graphics yes. 512 Bits is currently a nice number of bits for graphics.

Anonymous I joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 2 hours later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #943,745

@943,660 (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
It can't be an odd number of bits. The shave-to-haircut ratio would be thrown out of balance.

Anonymous J joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 36 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #943,758

@previous (I)
can you do 222 bits

Anonymous J double-posted this 7 years ago, 16 seconds later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #943,759

@943,745 (I)
how about 44 boys

Anonymous I replied with this 7 years ago, 13 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #943,761

@943,758 (J)
I'm pretty sure it has to be a power of two. I'm not sure why it can't be a power of other things like the power of love or the power of positive thinking. You'd have to find an expert to ask though.

Anonymous J replied with this 7 years ago, 2 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #943,764

@previous (I)
so, 222 is more powerful?

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