In article <1992Aug19.141643.12310@hal.com> bobp@hal.com (Bob Pendelton) writes:
>Since NT has been ported to the alpha and r4000, both 64 bit
>architectures, can we expect a 64 bit Windows API at some point int
>the future? The reason I ask is because 32 bit pointers just aren't
>long enough for a lot of apps. And I'd hate to think that on a 64 bit
>machine with N Gbytes of memory I'd have to use some weird kinds of
>handles to access memory beyond the 4G barrier (only 2 Gs under NT).
Its quite conceivable, but the first ports will be 32-bit - we do have 64-bit extents for all file i/o, and file & disk sizes, so we dont think it'll really be too limiting - but the Win32 API was designed with a move to 64-bit sometime -- Alistair