[geeks] OK success almost
Joshua D Boyd
jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Fri Mar 22 16:19:58 CST 2002
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 05:14:59PM -0500, Andrew Weiss wrote:
> also... isn't the Crimson a 64 bit machine? I was wondering why running
> file on many of the files yields 32 bit programs... can they be
> changed?... and why of course does the default install install only 32
> bit stuff?
All r4k derived chips are 64bit. My understanding was that the move to 64
was slow, even though 6.x would never run on anything worse than an r4k.
With mips pro you can compile applications for 64bit on 6.2. I'm assuming
the same for gcc.
Question, can you tell if the kernel is 64bit?
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Joshua D. Boyd
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