Why we don’t have 128 bit OS or CPUs?
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Because we haven’t had the need yet. (Outside of very specific usecases)
Every bit you add you double the amount of information you can work with. So going from 32-bit to 64-bit didn’t just double the amount of things we could do, it doubled it 32 times.
32-bit has a limit of 4 GB and as you can probably tell by todays standards it’s not a lot anymore.
64-bit is capable of managing 17,179,869,184 GB. The biggest file of data currently is held by CERN where they have a single file over 2,000,000 GB (Source unsure)
While 2 petabytes sounds like a lot, it’s still miniscule compared to what 64-bit is capable of.
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