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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!panix!news.panix.com!not-for-mail From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6 Date: 2 Dec 1996 08:28:19 -0500 Organization: Panix Lines: 28 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <57ulhj$dt4@panix2.panix.com> References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <casper.329d5a07@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <57shkh$opf@web.nmti.com> <57ug97$k8b@melb.werple.net.au> Reply-To: tls@rek.tjls.com NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:91095 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1649 comp.unix.internals:11403 In article <57ug97$k8b@melb.werple.net.au>, Ian Evans <iane@werple.net.au> wrote: >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)? Oh, they'll work just fine if they work on a Cray. (hint: a lot more stuff works on a Cray than you'd expect.) >Surely they couldn't seriously have done that - I mean, they're not >Microsoft :-). Or Seymour? -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@panix.COM There's nothing like rancid bear fat to keep you happy. -Perry Metzger