On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 10:32:57 -0400, Scott Rowe wrote:

>If memory is addressable with 31-bits, then it is
>below the bar, if not, it is above the bar.

I agree.  I think that "bar" was chosen, not because "a bar has thickness" 
but to avoid confusion as to which line was meant when someone said, 
"above the line".

Alas, it seems to have caused another kind of confusion.

-- 
Tom Marchant

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