[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to tell for sure what bit your OS is?

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 05/31/17 09:43 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
> The alternative would be a large times analog of large file support; why that wasn't done when 64-bit began, I don't understand. :-)

It was considered at Sun in the late 90's but discarded as going full LP64
already provided a solution without combinatorial explosion of test matrices
for large files x large times.  The large files API was created before LP64
was an option on most Unixes, including Solaris.

	-alan-