Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: comp.arch,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: VAX Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2025 15:09:55 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <0c857b8347f07f3a0ca61c403d0a8711@www.novabbs.com> <2025Aug1.191648@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <106jvc3$qan0$1@dont-email.me> <106kh0k$18ipb$1@paganini.bofh.team> <2025Aug3.185110@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <106otf6$1sov2$1@dont-email.me> <106p4k6$1u13o$1@dont-email.me> <20250804121938.0000122a@yahoo.com> <20250804180748.0000356b@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2025 19:10:08 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1f43fac7385ab9c0c2ce373a9b373f33"; logging-data="2469898"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX183kJbfM7rWa54Rd6hHgbYiNZ0OI7fCsbQ=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LSkm5ahayJgU/1EMDqZ0YB3wWv0= sha1:/dzTh1PY+SdSYWz3PvxuzU3IulM= Xref: csiph.com comp.arch:112896 alt.folklore.computers:231466 Scott Lurndal [2025-08-04 15:32:55] wrote: > Michael S writes: >> scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote: >>> Michael S writes: >>>> BGB wrote: >>>> Except for majority of the world where long is 32 bit >>> What majority? Linux owns the server market, the >>> appliance market and much of the handset market (which apple >>> dominates with their OS). And all Unix/Linux systems have >>> 64-bit longs on 64-bit CPUs. >> Majority of the world is embedded. Ovewhelming majority of embedded is >> 32-bit or narrower. > In terms of shipped units, perhaps (although many are narrower, as you > point out). In terms of programmers, it's a fairly small fraction that > do embedded programming. Yeah, the unit of measurement is a problem. I wonder how it compares if you look at number of programmers paid to write C code (after all, we're talking about C). In the desktop/server/laptop/handheld world, AFAICT the market share of C has shrunk significantly over the years whereas I get the impression that it's still quite strong in the embedded space. But I don't have any hard data. Stefan