On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Jason Fischer wrote:
> I'm not 100% on MacOS, or MkLinux, but RedHat and SlackWare are 32bit. As
> far as I know the only redily available 64 bit OS's are a port of Linux to
> the ALPHA, a flavor of SunOS (or was it slowaris?), and I think Digital
> has a 64bit version of DGUX.
I beleive it's Solaris 5.4 and up (I've also seen it called SunOS 5.4
*shrug). I think I once ran circle on it without any noticeable problems.
I've also seen another port of linux which I think was to sparc and that
may or may not be 64-bit.
> In order to have more than 32 bits in an integer you need to have two
> cases. One, you have to be on a hardware platform where the CPU has
> registers greater than 32 bits. Two, a compiler that produces 64 bit
> code.
Good point. A 64-bit system won't necessarily give you 64-bit ints. If
it's important to know, just get a sizeof(int).
For those of you looking for a 64-bit server to solve your bitvector
problems, consider the fact that if you modify your bitvectors to take
advantage, you're going to be in a world of porting hurt if you have to
move.
Sam
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