29 May
2003
29 May
'03
1:54 a.m.
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 06:18:40AM -0700, Ethan Dicks wrote:
They used to say the same thing about BSD/VAX coders...
all those unix people are evil!!! *ducking!*
The charge in 1983 was "char * and an int are the
same size..."
equally as evil. ;)
The hosed parties 20 years ago tended to be 16-bit
users/admins.
i wasn't lucky enough to get to deal with 16-bit machines on a regular basis.
i do now, but not then. ;)
I realize that Linux on x86 is a hugely popular
platform for Open Source
work, but there's plenty of UltraSPARC machines out there... surely
you don't need an Alpha to shatter these assumptions
i wonder how many people build things 64-bit though? it's very easy to build
and run 32-bit software on sparc64 and MIPS64. i do, but i'm one of those
weirdos. ;)
(whose Alpha is running VMS, not UNIX; because it can)
all my alphas run VMS. my octane only runs IRIX because no-one has ported
VMS to it yet. ;)
-brian
--
"I'd say don't quit your day job, but you're pretty lousy at that
too." -Bender