State of the 64bit?
Tom Browder
tom.browder at gmail.com
Tue Oct 19 13:40:19 UTC 2010
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 07:38, Christopher Chan
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
...
> Nope, user (as in desktop user) had nothinh to do but system
> admin/programmer did but that still had nothing to do with whether the
> kernel was in 32-bit mode or not because large file support came before
> AMD unveiled the Hammer and most people were happily using large file
> support already by the time AMD released the Hammer.
> Large file support had to be enabled in the kernel and then programs
> wanting large file support had to explicitly have it turned on during
> compilation.
Aha, I have never been a regular user! Since 1993 I have always
programmed under Linux and knew at one time I had to do something
special. In the early days it didn't matter, but of course the trend
is to always run out of resources and it started mattering later.
But I still think at one time the user, at installation, was offered
the choice of a kernel with or without large-file support, and the
default was without (Red Hat or Fedora).
Regards,
-Tom
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