Subj : i am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works
To   : Benny Pedersen
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Sun Jan 21 2024 05:51 pm

Hey Benny!

 BP> you miss my point

Business as usual.  ;-)

 BP> i have a 80286 in my gvp amiga harddisk controller, so i could
 BP> use msdos

I suppose except it escapes me why anyone would willingly do that.

 BP> or maybe linux for 16 bit arch :)

What are you smoking over there?  That was never possible as far as I am aware.  minix would be the only real choice if one wishes to waste electicity for little to no reward.  It's all abandonware for good reason.

 BP> 64bit will not see any change on it

So in other words it matters little to nothing whether or not a 64 bit processor can emulate a lesser platform (32 bit) given nobody is noticing anyhow.  Also where are you finding any REAL development on 32 bit platforms anymore?  Speaking for myself, I was more than happy to create my very first 64 bit system using dual p3's which are 32 bit given at the time there was no distribution that was pure 64 bit at the time.  It worked great once installed and booted on an actual x86_64 platform.

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

That doesn't surprise me.  Although I am not a big fan of bloat, in this case both economics and available applications make's current development extremely attractive.  Also when targetting a minimal system, it doesn't require 4Gb of ram to run ... unless we're talking firefox and other greedy applications that really don't have much meaningful to offer in return.  gcc is worth the extra bytes given all it has to offer in return.  These days that is a very rare trait and I for one am thankful for it.

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

I say they can keep them.  They have diddley-squat.

Life is good,
Maurice

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