> Actually, Micro$oft late last year made a big fanfare announcement
> that they are switching to a 3-1 split, touting it (of course) as the
> best thing since sliced bread. I believe my reaction was trying to
> remember if Linux had had it for a full five years yet...
I believe MS originally chose the 2-2 split because certain architectures
required it (MIPS, IIRC). Rather than use different splits on the
different architectures, they just kept the same one to maintain
portability.
I'm not aware of what the actual porting issues were, but perhaps someone
else is?
shag
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