[rescue] IRIX 5.3 32bits or 64?

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 nick at snowman.net wrote:

> (Some hardware that supports full 64bits.  Remember that every SGI past
> the indigo supported full 64bit, to include indy i2 o2 etc)

Not quite.  The R4000 and later CPUs support 64 bit operation, but the
Indy, O2, and IP22 Indigo2 are 32-bit machines.  To verify this, type
"uname".  32-bit machines return "IRIX" and 64-bit machines return
"IRIX64".  32-bit machines are unable to boot a 64-bit kernel or run
64-bit binaries, though they do gain a modicum of 64-bitness via the N32
ABI.

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