On the distinguished day of Jul 31, der Mouse wrote:

> [quoting order normalized -dM]
>
> >>> netbsd does have an config option to split kernel/user space to 1G/3G
> >>> as linux does.  This option exists for every platform.
> >> That sounds..doubtful, at least.  For example, on the VAX, the
> >> architecture simply does not permit more than 2G of per-process VM.
> > sorry, I mean for the modern 32-bit processors.
>
> Indeed.  And the VAX is not modern, then?
...
> What about the Alpha, what's the option there?  Or is that not modern
> either?

NetBSD (and Linux, and ...) is LP64 on the Alpha (64-bit).  So it is both
modern, non 32-bit, and pretty much free from the need for such dirty
hacks to begin with. :-)

-bp
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