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Article #12574Re: 64-bit chips, 32-bit compatibility?
From: Stefan Monnier
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 09:50
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 09:50
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In article <jgkDFG9HJ.49x@netcom.com>, Joe Keane <jgk@netcom.com> wrote: ] In fact, the situation with Alpha is very similar to the current situation ] with Macintosh and 16-bit Windows programs, with the sizes doubled of course. ] You will run into the same types of problems around 2 GB on the Alpha as we ] currently run into at 32 KB with Mac and Windows programs. Of course these Why should that be ? If you run WinNT or OpenVMS on an alpha, then yes: those OSes are 32bit OSes that only use the lower 32bit pointers, but for on OSF/1 I can't see why 2GB should be any kind of limit (except of course when there has to be some compatibility with other unix versions, like if you NFS mount a 32bit file system). Stefan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!swidir.switch.ch!epflnews!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" <stefan.monnier@epfl.ch> Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: 64-bit chips, 32-bit compatibility? Date: 25 Sep 1995 09:50:32 GMT Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Message-ID: <445u18$h8n@info.epfl.ch> References: <43p1g8$s24@rbdc.rbdc.com> <43srit$94b@hermes.synopsys.com> <43tada$8i6@rbdc.rbdc.com> <jgkDFG9HJ.49x@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: liasg9.epfl.ch Originator: monnier@lia.di.epfl.ch (Stefan Monnier)