From: antispam@fricas.org   
      
   Lawrence D’Oliveiro  wrote:   
   > On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 19:52:52 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   >   
   >> (... somehow they fucked up longint and made it 32 bit on 32 bit and   
   >> 64 bit Windows but 64 bit on 64 bit *nix)   
   >   
   > It was *Microsoft* that “fucked up longint”, and nobody else. Just to be   
   > clear.   
      
   You mean long.  But note that DEC made half step first: Alpha is   
   64-bit machine and DEC made long 32-bit on Alpha.  DEC had reasons   
   for doing this and Microsoft had reasons to make long 32-bit on   
   64-bit Windows.  One can argue if those reasons were good enough,   
   but that was not a random decision.   
      
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