Subj : i am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Benny Pedersen
Date : Sun Jan 21 2024 05:03 pm

Hello Maurice!

21 Jan 2024 04:07, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:

 MK> Hey Benny!

 BP>> prepare for kernel.org mainline, then you dont have multiarch
 BP>> anymore, either you need 32bit only or not :)

 MK> 'or not' sounds like what I've been doing for the last 15-20 years or 
 MK> so.

you miss my point, i have a 80286 in my gvp amiga harddisk controller, so i could use msdos, or maybe linux for 16 bit arch :)

 BP>> so now kernel.org have final a kernel for alpha'arch with pure
 BP>> 64bit only

 MK> x86_64 pure 64bit for ages.  This is nothing new.

for real user no, but api in 64bit kernels does not anymore emulate 32bit api, so in pratics not possible to run 32bit elf code anymore, 64bit will not see any change on it

 BP>> userland have disabled 32bit long time ago in gentoo

 MK> I think I beat them all to the punch.  I could look it up, but going 
 MK> by my less than perfect memory I am guesstimating 2005 at the latest.  
 MK> Also c-only.  Absolutely zero c++ source was harmed in the making.  
 MK> Roughly 128M for the entire development 'distribution' (gcc-4 and 
 MK> friends).

my 80286 in my gvp harddisk used amiga memory for the highmem part, std the card have 512kb on its own card, i woundered still today why it have not 1024kb, so it would be equal cool like a commodore 128 with reu 1750 ram expender :=)

gentoo gcc needs 4Gb ram to compile now, with 1Gb it does not work

 MK> Those were the days my friend.

8bit and 16bit hardware boards still lives on self made boards on facebook, i wonder why ?


 Regards Benny

.... too late to die young :)

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