changeset 1630:990776cf60db draft

Another random link for the design page.
author Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
date Sun, 28 Dec 2014 14:44:09 -0600
parents 0459ee56c9d6
children 44e86486a57d
files www/design.html
diffstat 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/www/design.html	Sun Dec 28 14:38:14 2014 -0600
+++ b/www/design.html	Sun Dec 28 14:44:09 2014 -0600
@@ -262,7 +262,8 @@
 the same size on 64 bit systems, but pointer and long are.</p>
 
 <p>This is guaranteed by the LP64 memory model, a Unix standard (which Linux
-and MacOS X both implement).  See
+and MacOS X both implement, and which modern 64 bit processors such as
+x86-64 were <a href=http://www.pagetable.com/?p=6>designed for</a>).  See
 <a href=http://www.unix.org/whitepapers/64bit.html>the LP64 standard</a> and
 <a href=http://www.unix.org/version2/whatsnew/lp64_wp.html>the LP64
 rationale</a> for details.</p>