Re: i5/OS 32 or 64-bit ? -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: i5/OS 32 or 64-bit ?
From: Steve.Hinrichs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:09:24 -0500
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Larry - Thanks for the clarification. I was thinking about hardware, not
os when I was replying. I should have remembered Dr. Franks comments
about 128bit in his book.

Steve

> message: 5
> date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:02:20 -0400
> from: "Larry Bolhuis" <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: Re: i5/OS 32 or 64-bit ?
>
> Careful! The O/S itself is 128bit and has been forever. It currently
runs
> on 64 bit hardware but all the pointers etc are all set for 128bits(16
> bytes).
>

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