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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.osf.osf1
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6
Date: 1 Dec 1996 18:07:28 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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In article <x7917mx5gx.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com>,
Marco S Hyman  <marc@dumbcat.codewright.com> wrote:
> Stage 2 (not to be started until the world's C software has been fixed
> 	 regarding pointers and longs):

DEC has already taken the hit for this. Anything that has been ported to
the Alpha has already adjusted to 64 bit longs.

I sure hope Sun keeps screwing up like this, it'll mean more broken
transitions in the future when they finally catch on, and frankly I'd
love to see more folks running Digital UNIX instead of Solaris... it's
a much more pleasant environment to work in.

-- 
</peter>