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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!sun4nl!fwi.uva.nl!not-for-mail From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.osf.osf1 Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6 Supersedes: <cancel.casper.32a2d2b9@mail.fwi.uva.nl> Date: 2 Dec 1996 13:59:37 +0100 Organization: Sun Microsystems, Netherlands Lines: 29 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <casper.32a2d2b9@mail.fwi.uva.nl> References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <casper.329c06bc@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <57ik5l$12i$1@shade.twinsun.com> <x7917mx5gx.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com> <57shh0$o3u@web.nmti.com> <57ui72$4li@arktur.rz.uni-ulm.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.fwi.uva.nl Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:91090 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1648 comp.unix.internals:11400 comp.unix.osf.osf1:16793 borchert@turing.mathematik.uni-ulm.de (Andreas Borchert) writes: >On 1 Dec 1996 18:07:28 GMT, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote: >> DEC has already taken the hit for this. Anything that has been ported to >> the Alpha has already adjusted to 64 bit longs. >Well, this comparison does not count. DEC started the Alpha immediately >with 64 bits (years later after the SPARC architecture), starting with >no software base. It's not like they wrote it all from scratch. DEC did take a hit for this, I'm sure; X11 had to be ported and all 3rd part stuff, available for 32 bit only, had to be ported. There was a price to pay for going 64 bit, even if binary compatibility is not a concern. But that work is done now, and any many 64 bit porting issues have been dealt with on a per product/program basis, including PD software. (On 64 bit SPARC/Solaris, we'll probably be troubled more by #ifdef sun than anything else, though Solaris probably stamped out a good bit of that already) Casper -- Casper Dik - Sun Microsystems - via my guest account at the University of Amsterdam. My work e-mail address is: Casper.Dik@Holland.Sun.COM Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may be fiction rather than truth.