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In article <fitz.732157819@fnord> fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) writes:
-
-Peter, if we get 1000 people together to contribute $2 each to buy you a
-'386, will you stop complaining about how you can't run highly complicated
-modern software on a 16-bit box?
-
-It has nothing to do with being VAXist.  Sendmail runs fine on anything
-with 32-bit integers and pointers, and that's everything from a 68000 to a
-RISC.  Few people want to deal with the pain of writing code for CPUs with
-16-bit integers, just to handle the tiny fraction of the current computer
-stockpile which is that limited.

Not all computers with pointers and integers of other than 32 bits are
"limited".  Will sendmail compile and run correctly on machines with
32-bit integers and 128-bit pointers?  (I use such a machine
frequently.)

"Portable" code that depends on pointers and integers being the same width,
isn't.
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Larry Campbell             The Boston Software Works, Inc., 120 Fulton Street
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