From: Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Four windowing systems on SunOS
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 15:52:03 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16d7a543-8c34-3663-f0d7-14b588683d6c@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W43-5WzTRaP1WG9+GT=_6XSOuGOxj+SkaOdtyNxs1SQxQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/31/22 1:21 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
> That sounds like a ton of codebases, though. I remember trying to port
> an APL interpreter to 64-bit, and giving up; too much type puning of
> pointers through int's.
This reminds me of the stories I've heard about Microsoft's inability to
port Pinball to /their/ 64-bit processor, the Itanium.
No, not their copy of /AMD/'s 64-bit extension on Intel's x86
architecture. ;-)
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Grant. . . .
unix || die
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-31 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-31 18:21 [TUHS] " Kevin Bowling
2022-10-31 19:14 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2022-10-31 19:17 ` Jon Steinhart
2022-10-31 19:21 ` Dan Cross
2022-10-31 21:52 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS [this message]
2022-11-01 11:02 ` Liam Proven
2022-11-02 8:55 ` Michael Casadevall
2022-11-02 15:34 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-11-02 15:44 ` Michael Kjörling
2022-11-05 10:38 ` Michael Casadevall
2022-11-05 11:21 ` Liam Proven
2022-10-31 19:26 ` Larry McVoy
2022-10-31 19:59 ` Ronald Natalie
2022-10-31 19:33 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2022-11-01 3:25 ` Tomasz Rola
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