[dundee] Linux on the desktop

[Jonathan Barber]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 05:54:26PM +0000, Andrew Clayton wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 15:42, Martin Habets wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> 
> > > 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.

How can it 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
> 
> 
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Jon