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- From: John Rudelic <jrudelic>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.programming
- Subject: Re: Why are 32 bit better than 16 bit pgms?
- Date: 22 Jan 1996 20:47:17 GMT
- Organization: Ford Motor Company / EFH Division
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- This question requires more information to be answered correctly. If the
- individual asking the question is asking from an academic or theoretical
- perspective, there is no reason why 32 bit programs are better than 16 bit
- programs and in fact, depending on the platform involved, can be worse (i.e.
- code size). It is a fact that much of Windows 95 is still 16-bit code (A.
- Schulman Unauthorized Windows) because the WIN95 team chould not afford the
- bloat associated with transferring to 32-bits.
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- If the individual asking the question is asking from an intel x86 perspective
- than there are numerious reasons: no far pointers, flat memory model, no more
- selector games, and such.
-
- I work with 8/16-bit microcontrollers for a living and in that world 16 vs
- 32-bit is a non-issue, however, I also develop tools for for the x86 platform
- and in that world 32-bit will make my job much easier.
-
- To answer: 32 bit is NOT automatically better than 16-bit but for x86 it is!
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- Hope that sums it up.
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- - John
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