Re: How to detect if Linux is 32bit or 64bit? "Marketshare"?

Aragorn <aragorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
operating system, which is another attempt of theirs to reinvent the
wheel, by implementing kernel- and userspace separation in software,
rather than by using the processor's privilege rings. Allegedly this
is done for performance reasons - supposedly to speed up a
microkernel-based system - but I presume that the real reason for it,
in good Microsoft tradition, would rather be that they hope to patent
the technology and then go after everyone who would be attempting a
similar approach. <eg>

That'd be an interesting test of prior art. Experimental OSes have been
taking this approach for decades. I wouldn't put it past them to try
anyway :)

Cheers,

Rob (returning to Usenet after a rather long break).
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