Re: Identifying CPU and current OS
On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 03:37:43PM -0000, Greg wrote:
> On 2025-09-29, Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> >>I also believed there were actually two types of widths: the data bus
> >>width, and the CPU architecture width, and that the two didn't
> >>necessarily have to match.
> >
> > I have no idea what an "architecture width" is. As described in my
> > original message, you can describe an architecture in terms of the size
>
> Processor word size?
Completely OT for the current conversation other than a different interpretation
of "size" that might amuse:
I complained to someone who sent email to a mail list that had several
'standard' attachments - one of which was the corporate logo, 2 or 3 colours
but 150k in size. I complained that the attachment was too big.
He then told me that I needed to adjust my mail reader to show it a smaller size.
I explained: size in bytes, it could quite easily be 1/10 the size.
He did not understand.
I explained in more detail.
He was abusive to me :-(
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