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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!not-for-mail From: iane@werple.net.au (Ian Evans) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6 Date: 2 Dec 1996 22:58:31 +1100 Organization: Werple Internet, Melbourne Lines: 17 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <57ug97$k8b@melb.werple.net.au> References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <57ik5l$12i$1@shade.twinsun.com> <x7917mx5gx.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com> <casper.329d5a07@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <57shkh$opf@web.nmti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: melb.werple.net.au Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:91086 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1646 comp.unix.internals:11397 peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >> Though I think HAL has made a different choice for it's 64 bitversion of >> Solaris, making both ints and longs 64 bits. >Ewwwww. That is SO ugly. >-- ></peter> Not to mention the question - how do you get many networking programs working when there isn't a 32-bit data type (e.g. Card32 or whatever it's called in X11)? Surely they couldn't seriously have done that - I mean, they're not Microsoft :-). Ian Evans iane@werple.net.au