On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 10:59 -0500, Paul A Houle wrote:
Other operating systems install 32-bit applications under a
64-bit
kernel. For instance, Solaris 10 installs a largely 32-bit userspace
on both Sparc64 and AMD64. This has the nice effect that the same
Solaris 10 disk installs on both x86-32 and x86-64. This is probably a
good choice for SPARC, but AMD64 gets a performance boost from the
extra registers.
Fedora does the same on ppc64 -- most userspace is ppc32.
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