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|    Benny Pedersen to Maurice Kinal    |
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|    21 Jan 24 17:03:16    |
      MSGID: 2:230/0 65ad5071       TZUTC: 0000       REPLY: 1:153/7001.2989 65ac9895       CHRS: LATIN-1 2       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 17-02-17       Hello Maurice!              21 Jan 2024 04:07, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:               MK> Hey Benny!               BP>> prepare for kernel.org mainline, then you dont have multiarch        BP>> anymore, either you need 32bit only or not :)               MK> 'or not' sounds like what I've been doing for the last 15-20 years or         MK> so.              you miss my point, i have a 80286 in my gvp amiga harddisk controller, so i       could use msdos, or maybe linux for 16 bit arch :)               BP>> so now kernel.org have final a kernel for alpha'arch with pure        BP>> 64bit only               MK> x86_64 pure 64bit for ages. This is nothing new.              for real user no, but api in 64bit kernels does not anymore emulate 32bit api,       so in pratics not possible to run 32bit elf code anymore, 64bit will not see       any change on it               BP>> userland have disabled 32bit long time ago in gentoo               MK> I think I beat them all to the punch. I could look it up, but going         MK> by my less than perfect memory I am guesstimating 2005 at the latest.         MK> Also c-only. Absolutely zero c++ source was harmed in the making.         MK> Roughly 128M for the entire development 'distribution' (gcc-4 and         MK> friends).              my 80286 in my gvp harddisk used amiga memory for the highmem part, std the       card have 512kb on its own card, i woundered still today why it have not       1024kb, so it would be equal cool like a commodore 128 with reu 1750 ram       expender :=)              gentoo gcc needs 4Gb ram to compile now, with 1Gb it does not work               MK> Those were the days my friend.              8bit and 16bit hardware boards still lives on self made boards on facebook, i       wonder why ?                      Regards Benny              ... too late to die young :)              --- Msged/LNX 6.1.2 (Linux/6.6.13-gentoo-dist (x86_64))        * Origin: gopher://fido.junc.eu/ (2:230/0)       SEEN-BY: 15/0 18/200 90/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 124/5016 128/260       SEEN-BY: 129/305 135/225 153/757 7715 154/10 30 201/0 203/0 124 412       SEEN-BY: 218/700 221/0 1 6 226/30 227/114 229/110 112 113 206 307       SEEN-BY: 229/317 400 426 428 470 550 616 664 700 230/0 240/1120 5832       SEEN-BY: 266/512 280/464 5003 282/1038 291/111 292/854 8125 301/1       SEEN-BY: 310/31 320/219 322/757 341/66 234 342/200 396/45 423/120       SEEN-BY: 460/58 128 256 1124 5858 467/888 633/280 712/848 770/1 5020/400       SEEN-BY: 5020/545 5054/30 5075/35       PATH: 230/0 203/0 280/464 460/58 229/426           |
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