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From: Michael Casadevall <michael@casadevall.pro>
To: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Four windowing systems on SunOS
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2022 04:55:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEMRDeEs56Fku8yC0dHcd2Lf6VBS4ijThyG9zyrB33f_2NuPpA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16d7a543-8c34-3663-f0d7-14b588683d6c@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net>

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I extensively researched this; there are infact copies of Pinball for
64-bit platforms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EPTfOTC4Jw&t=47s

Pinball had problems relating to 64-bit FPU precision (and this can
actually be reproduced by fiddling with FPU flags), but it did ship in
Windows XP x64 Professional.
Michael

On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 5:55 PM Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org> wrote:

> 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.  ;-)
>
>
>
> --
> Grant. . . .
> unix || die
>
>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-11-02  8:56 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
2022-11-01 11:02         ` Liam Proven
2022-11-02  8:55         ` Michael Casadevall [this message]
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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