[Info-vax] OT: news from the trenches (re: Solaris)

[Scott Dorsey]

JF Mezei  <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>On 15-03-13 10:04, lists at openmailbox.org wrote:
>
>> 64 bit support was and is a disaster. 32 bit and 64 bit code can't coexist.
>
>If that is the case, how did Apple manage to progressively make OS-X go
>from 32 to 64 bits ?  There was a time where much of the OS was still 32
>bits but allowed apps to be 64 bits and vice versa for more recent times.

OSX, Solaris, and Linux all took different approaches to the transition
to 64-bit addressing.  But all of them work pretty well.

It's not like the transition from 16-bit to 32-bit addressing was.
--scott

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