On 2018-04-27, The Natural Philosopher  wrote:

> On 27/04/18 12:50, Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote:
>
>> On 27/04/2018 10:46, Andreas Neumann wrote:
>>
>>> Andrew Gabriel wrote:
>>>
>>>> Why do you want a 64 bit build?
>>>
>>> Because 64 bit are twice as good as 32 bit?
>>
>> Definitely a 6dB improvement on the ease of programming.
>> For the first time an architecture exists where no effort
>> need be expended on programming your way around its
>> limitations, the 8051 and 6303 being the worst in
>> my experience!

Worse than 8086/8?  Must have been bad...

> Well C takes care of all that, except yupu have to remembert int_32 and
> int_16 if you want those sizes..

And then all that pointer fiddling.  Forget the 640K barrier, it was the
64K barrier that drove me nuts.  Small memory model, medium, large, huge,
near pointers, far pointers, pointer normalization, shuffling things into
and out of work areas so I didn't get segment wraparounds followed by
inexplicable data corruption and crashes...  Good riddance to all that.

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