In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/02/2006
at 01:55 PM, Steve Comstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Oh, yeah, I forgot. The keyboard would have a simple
>switch to allow data to be sent to the computer in
>UTF-8, UTF-16, or UTF-32.
Why? That's the software's job.
>And those old existing programs where you don't have
>the source module could run in a single 2GiB piece of
>a 64-bit address space.
That's what we have now, but you'd also need to deal with old 64-bit
programs. Even if you have the source code it might not be
economically viable to make the requisite changes.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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