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Sun Aug 20 17:35:11 CEST 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-August/068402.html

>>>>> Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> writes:

> Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> It isn't. Python ran on 64-bit Alpha for nearly a decade now (I guess)

> make that "over a decade".  the first Python system I built was on 
> tru64, back in 1995 (portions of the the initial prototype was written 
> on a 286 box under MS-DOS, but the bulk was developed on tru64 and 
> deployed on tru64...)

Well, there's 64-bit support and then there's 64-bit support. While all Unix
or Unix like OSs follow LP64 model, I believe Win64 follows a P64 model. So
it's a whole new ball game.

Ganesan

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