News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The future of 32-bit Linux. Parent comment

Re:The future of 32-bit Linux by kps on Saturday December 05, 2020 @12:03AM (#25311928)
> a separately correct design decision would have been to use 64-bits of time from the starta separately correct design decision would have been to use 64-bits of time from the start

On a 16-bit machine when memory cost close to a dollar a byte?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The future of 32-bit Linux by rat87 on Saturday December 05, 2020 @01:37AM (#25312359)
yes

what percent of memory do dates usually use? Even in a spreadheet, it wouldn't double needed memory at worst it would probably be signficantly less then 10% extra memory

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The future of 32-bit Linux by eropple on Saturday December 05, 2020 @03:44AM (#25312900)
A PDP-11/20 could address (without extensions) 32 16-byte kilowords, or 64 kilobytes, of RAM. Most machines shipped with twelve kilowords, or 24 kilobytes, of RAM.

Tell me again how free the creators of Unix should've been with it.

[ Parent | on HN ]