[dundee] Linux on the desktop

[Andrew Clayton]

On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 15:42, Martin Habets wrote:

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> > What have you used 64-bitness in apples for?  As far as I know Mac OS
> > X is only 32-bit.
> 
> Yes, Mac OS X is 32 bit. But I was running Linux on them (and on the sparcs btw.),
> so I had 64 bit compilers!

Although there is generally little advantage in having a full 64bit user
land. And in fact it can be a disadvantage.

Hence why at least on Linux/Sparc64, userland is 32bit. 

The kernel is of course 64bit. In fact Linux was 64bit on sparc before
Solaris was!
 

[snip]

Andrew