Re: using more than 2 GB as a ram disk

Simon Kenyon (simon@koala.ie)
Tue, 02 Feb 1999 08:12:14 -0000 (GMT)

On 02-Feb-99 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> You probably want to go 64-bit, like UltraSPARC or Alpha.

somebody (it's beyond me) needs to port linux (SPARC or Alpha) to Pentium
is that such a crazy idea?

i remember reading a paper about a port of UNIX V7 from a PDP-11 to a PDP-11
(with the two 16bit quantities in a 32bit integer swapped)
this was so they could share a VAX disk

seems like we need a version of Linux on Pentium which has 64bit quantities
everywhere. call it a "practicing for merced" exercise :-)

--
simon


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