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Re:Computer Scientists’ Trivia by peapicker on Thursday February 02, 2017 @11:12AM (#13551573)
Even that is inaccurate. Long is 4 bytes on 64bit windows, 8 bytes on 64bit UNIXes (all I've used) and 4 bytes on OS/400 with teraspace (an environment with 16 byte pointers)
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Re:Computer Scientists’ Trivia by dvirsky on Thursday February 02, 2017 @11:20AM (#13551661)
yeah but certainly 8 bytes are not 32 bit
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