From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, November 28, 2022 at 11:59:14 PM UTC+8, anti...@math.uni.wroc.pl   
   wrote:   
      
   > > Standardize on S/370. Standardize on a.out. Standardize   
   > > on C90.   
      
   > Well, S/370 is not good choice, it is limited to 24-bit   
   > addressing.   
      
   The instruction set has no such limit. You can write   
   a program and it can run on an AM32 or even an   
   AM64 or AM-infinity machine (as well as AM24).   
      
   > instructions. Anyway, S370XE (that is with 31-bit   
      
   XA   
      
   > Once you have compiler, there is really no need to insist   
   > that architectures are very similar.   
      
   The reason I insist that is so that the assembler and   
   linker don't need to be rewritten.   
      
   Ritchie created a language that, as far as I can tell, was   
   designed to last for eternity.   
      
   I want to write an eternal OS and eternal toolchain in that eternal language.   
      
   At a minimum I want to support flat 32, 64, 128, 256-bit   
   registers.   
      
   Ideally I would support 16:16, 32:32, 64:64, 128:128   
   segmentation too.   
      
   But I don't know which architecture to settle on.   
      
   I guess I could provide multiple assemblers to give   
   more eternal OS/toolchains.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
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