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From: iane@werple.net.au (Ian Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6
Date: 2 Dec 1996 22:58:31 +1100
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peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>> Though I think HAL has made a different choice for it's 64 bitversion of
>> Solaris, making both ints and longs 64 bits.

>Ewwwww. That is SO ugly.
>-- 
></peter>

Not to mention the question - how do you get many networking programs
working when there isn't a 32-bit data type (e.g. Card32 or whatever it's
called in X11)?

Surely they couldn't seriously have done that - I mean, they're not
Microsoft :-).

Ian Evans      iane@werple.net.au