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Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:15:12 -0500
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From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9 go output faults on 9vx with rfork
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2011/1/23 Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>:
> in the plan 9 world, a 64-bit kernel runs 64-bit applications,
> and 32-bit applications run on a 32-bit kernel.
> a 64-bit 9vx would run programs produced by 6[acl]
> (well, in principle: it would need to be derived from the 64-bit kernel)

It would, but vx32 still just "emulates" an i386. So even if 9vx is
built to run on amd64, the underlying Plan 9 environment still uses
8*.

--dho