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https://lowendmac.com/2015/32-bit-addressing-on-older-macs/ https://lowendmac.com/2015/32-bit-addressing-on-older-macs/

• ddingus 6y ago
  Thanks! Yeah, I passed this part of Mac history right by.
  • mrlonglong 6y ago
    Bad memories there. Programmers would stuff crap in the high 8 bits of the pointers. Not so good once running on 32 bits!
    • ddingus 6y ago
      Ouch! That seems both tempting, because the buts are right there, unused. ...and a bad idea, because at that time people had to know the address space was going to expand.