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From: tanner@hropus.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Time for 64-bit longs?
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Date: Wed, 11-Feb-87 18:25:23 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 11 18:25:23 1987
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) sherm@elxsi.UUCP (Michael Sherman) writes
) [ ... ] Moral arguments aside, we're stuck with int==long.

This silly assumption is what makes it so hard to port code written
on a vax or 68K to a 16-bit machine.

I (working on a 16-bit machine) won't grant you that we're stuck with
int==long.