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From: lm@cottage.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Supercomputer Unix decisions
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Date: Mon, 8-Jun-87 13:51:58 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  8 13:51:58 1987
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Reply-To: lm@cottage.WISC.EDU (Larry McVoy)
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Hi there.  (sorry, pete).  Suppose you were to bring up a Unix on a machine
that liked 64 bit ints better than 32 bit ints.  Would you be tempted to
make some of the changes that have already been anticipated - such as making
the time fields be 64 bits in things like the stat buf and timer structs?
Or would you leave things alone so that old code worked?

What other things would you consider given a Cray or something similar?


Larry McVoy 	        lm@cottage.wisc.edu  or  uwvax!mcvoy