I wrote on January 22, 2007 in the Xorg 7.2 PSARC case (PSARC/2007/051):
> This project adds 64-bit x86 and 64-bit SPARC binaries for the Xorg
> server and loadable modules as well.
> [...] Additionally, with video cards now shipping with 1gb of
> on-board video RAM and roadmaps showing increases still coming in the
> future, 64-bit addressing is needed to be able to address all the
> VRAM on multi-card systems now, and potentially in the future
> on a single frame buffer.
Just as a historical footnote, the future has arrived as expected, and
while we still don't have flying cars, the new Ultra 27 workstations
announced this week have as their top-end video option an
NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 card with 4GB of VRAM on a single card.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
