Hello Nicholas!

26 Oct 2015 17:18, Nicholas Boel wrote to Joe Delahaye:

 NB> Then again, if your BBS/FTN machine doesn't have 4gb RAM or more, you 
 NB> don't really need to run a 64bit OS at all anyways,

there is no relations ships in how much ram and cpu arch, linode.com can
make vms with just one gigabyte of ram, and still full 64bit os ready to
put more ram in if needed, if you start with a 32bit os, then you need to
reinstall to get 64bit os

but if you have dual bit os you can do it all, this just wastes more ram
since both 32bit and 64bit glibc versions need to be loaded in ram :=)

when will windows start to be complete 64bit ?, possible the day when 32bit
is not supported anymore ?

worst crime in windows is that it is supported

Alpha arch would have being stable if just programmers thinked like linux

and here to the threads it would be relative simple to make glibc and gcc
make 16bit elfs

when this was done, recompile dos programs on windows/linux and make it
even more stable, but why if one have the opensource not just upgrade it
all to 64bit and save ram resouces in running 3 versions of glibc ?

same happends if running multiple versions of python on the same host

 NB> and I personally have never needed anything more than 2gb RAM for
my entire BBS/FTN setup(s). 
 NB> YMMV.

i had never needed more then 64k ram on a commodore 64 either :)


 Regards Benny

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