[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >You're right of course and lots of people use them. My point is that
> >Solaris has been 64 bits lon ger then most others. I think 64 bits in
> >AIX got 64 bits after Solaris and Linux (via Alpha) did.
> >Irix was 64 bit near the same time as Solaris but the end of the Irix
> >is visible. Did they port i t to anything other then MIPS? OSF1 or
> >Digital Unix or Tru64 on the Alpha was the 1st commercial 6 4 bit OS
> >but it's pretty much gone nowadays. I'm not sure where VMS or HP-UX
> >stand.
>
> IRIX was much earlier than Solaris; Solaris was pretty late in the 64 bit
> game with Solaris 7.
And Alpha did not have a real 64 bit port as they did implement ILP64.
With ILP64 your application does not really notice that it runs in 64 bits
if you only use sizeof().
Jörg
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