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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!206.109.2.48!bonkers!web.nmti.com!peter From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.osf.osf1 Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6 Date: 1 Dec 1996 18:07:28 GMT Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI Lines: 15 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <57shh0$o3u@web.nmti.com> References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <casper.329c06bc@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <57ik5l$12i$1@shade.twinsun.com> <x7917mx5gx.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sonic.nmti.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:91023 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1640 comp.unix.internals:11383 comp.unix.osf.osf1:16786 In article <x7917mx5gx.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com>, Marco S Hyman <marc@dumbcat.codewright.com> wrote: > Stage 2 (not to be started until the world's C software has been fixed > regarding pointers and longs): DEC has already taken the hit for this. Anything that has been ported to the Alpha has already adjusted to 64 bit longs. I sure hope Sun keeps screwing up like this, it'll mean more broken transitions in the future when they finally catch on, and frankly I'd love to see more folks running Digital UNIX instead of Solaris... it's a much more pleasant environment to work in. -- </peter>