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From: torvalds@cc.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: DEBATE: BSD vs. Linux
Date: 5 Sep 1995 08:25:58 +0300
Organization: University of Helsinki
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In article <MICHAELV.95Sep3212838@mindbender.headcandy.com>,
Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote:
>
>Does it say whether Linux/Alpha is a 32-bit kernel, as has been widely
>reported in the past. For argument's sake, the NetBSD/Alpha kernel is
>fully 64-bit, just like Digital Unix (a.k.a. OSF/1).
Linux/alpha is a fully 64-bit kernel, quite like NetBSD and OSF/1. Also
like NetBSD (?) linux is also OSF/1 binary compatible, including OSF/1
shared libraries etc.
There will probably be a 32-bit development environment ("gcc -taso"
plus a special library) eventually available for linux to handle those
broken programs that assume an int can fit a pointer etc, but right now
a 32-bit environment isn't even available.
Linus