- ...Kilgard
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Mark graduated with B.A. in Computer Science
from Rice University and is a Member
of the Technical Staff at Silicon Graphics. He can be reached by
electronic mail addressed to mjk@sgi.com
- ...values
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While 64-bit pointers are manipulated as 64-bit quantities,
in the foreseeable future no machine will use this
entire range which could address 16 billion
gigabytes of data.
- ...values.
- The sufficiency of 32-bit sizes for the X11 protocol
is contrasted with the need to upgrade the Network File System (NFS)
protocol to support 64-bit file systems generally associated with
64-bit operating systems. NFS version 3 provides
support for huge files in excess of two gigabytes (the limit for NFS
version 2). While huge file sizes can surpass 32-bit limits justifying
64-bit protocols like NFS version 3, window system operations are
unlikely to ever exceed the restrictions of 32-bit data value ranges.
- ...release.
- X11R5 included code for Cray's particular 64-bit
architecture, but the support for the LP64 data type model was
not complete until X11R6.
- ...data.
- The
SERVER_OVERLAY_VISUALS is used as a convention adopted by SGI, HP,
and other X vendors to encode information about X server overlay and
underlay visuals as explained in the July/August '93 issue of The
X Journal.
Mark Kilgard
Sat Dec 30 11:52:07 PST 1995