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Clutching at straws here, but...

One use case for 128 bit addressing is for a single-address-space OS running on a cluster. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_address_space_operating_...

Pointers can have 32 bits for the IP address of the hosting node and 64 bits for the address within the node, and 32 bits spare for various flags.



I have no idea if this is technically feasible, but it sounds like a sweet idea!




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