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From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6
Date: 2 Dec 1996 08:28:19 -0500
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In article <57ug97$k8b@melb.werple.net.au>,
Ian Evans <iane@werple.net.au> wrote:
>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)?

Oh, they'll work just fine if they work on a Cray.

(hint: a lot more stuff works on a Cray than you'd expect.)

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

Or Seymour?

-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon	                                          tls@panix.COM

  There's nothing like rancid bear fat to keep you happy.	-Perry Metzger