Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Patrick McLean <chutzpah@g.o>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] 64 or 32?
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:51:45
Message-Id: 43EBF0EA.9000705@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] 64 or 32? by Bob Sanders
1 Bob Sanders wrote:
2 >
3 >> - standard desktop applications, as far as I am concerned, heavily rely on
4 >> OpenOffice.org and that is still 32 bit
5 >
6 > Desktop apps are fine at 16-bit. Why go to 32-bit?
7 >
8 If you can convince OpenOffice to run in 64kb (the maximum amount of memory a
9 16-bit program is capable of using) of address space, I think Sun or Google
10 would very much like to hire you to do so.
11
12 Sometimes I wonder if 32bits is enough for it...
13
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