On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Bayard Coolidge USG wrote: > Well, I'm not a surly curmudgeon, even though I'm retiring Friday,
Well, there's plenty of time yet to refine your nascent talents in that area, Bayard ... and btw, congratulations! ;) And may the merger be kind to your benefits package ... :) > Since then, and more recently with Linux, I've tried to champion the > concept/mindset that not everything is i386 (or IA32), that there are > other architectures that it's been/being ported to, and some of them > are 32 bit and some are 64 bit (and, admittedly, there is more than > one 64 bit architecture to which it's been ported that is still > shipping). > > Hopefully, this should make folks craft their source code so that > ints are ints and pointers are pointers and neither one is necessarily > 32 bits and shouldn't be assumed to be. (Yes, there are some other > details, but you get the idea). This is absolutely true, and the companies that market the hardware are fools if they fail to put some resources towards either helping the major distros and/or the larger coding projects polish up their offerings for that firm's platforms to at least approach what's readily available for x86, or instead develop an existing codebase into their own product (ala Darwin, a commendable effort so far, from what I've seen of it). Anything less is a mere finger in a hole in the dam. :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun 24, 2002 ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
