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- From: mgc@unislc.uucp (Marc Christensen)
- Subject: Re: 32 bit programming.
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- References: <1992Dec15.003458.11359@bnlux1.bnl.gov>
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- Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:03:46 GMT
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- christopher kushmerick (kushmer@bnlux1.bnl.gov) wrote:
- Q1: Could someone please drop me a quick note and tell me what the deal is
- : with "32-bit" programming on 80n86 machines?
- :
- P1: My understanding is that all of these cpus have segment based adressing
- : as far as the instruction set goes. Thus you get problems such as
- : a 64K limit on mem allocs in many programming language compiler
- : implementations.
- :
- F1: But now I hear about OS/2 ver 2, windows NT and some compilers that do
- : 32-bit programming.
-
- : What does this mean?
-
- Question 1 is answered by the fact that Problem 1 is solved by fact 1 and
- a 80386 or better.
-
- the code is also faster.
-
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- Marc Christensen
-