Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jimmy Johnson wrote:I imagine the arguments where similar when operating systems moved from 16 bit to 32 bit. ;)I have never heard of 16 bit userland and a 32 bit kernel, though. In the present case in a sense you can have the best of both worlds on one system. 8-) Has there ever been an official 16 bit linux kernel?
I could be wrong but I think the closest would be Minix '87 running on 8086, Linus was not doing his thing until '91 or maybe later, he may have started on a 8086, not sure.
-- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid)