[haiku-development] Re: 64 bit

  • From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6723@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 09:32:35 +0000

There was a post in this thread about Haiku being featured in YouTube videos, 
which brings up the question: 

Is there any way under Haiku to view YouTube videos, either HTML5 or Adobe 
Flash?

I can view some but not all YouTube videos from FreeBSD with (Mozilla) 
Seamonkey without Adobe Flash plugin.

I believe Linux amd64 can be built multilib, capable of running 64-bit amd64 or 
32-bit i386 software, believe the BSDs are not as advanced on this matter, and 
Haiku amd64 can't run 32-bit Haiku or BeOS software (from what I read on this 
list).

This type of backward compatibility is not really new.  OS/2 was originally a 
16-bit protected-mode OS, and when OS/2 went 32-bit with v2.0 and further, it 
could still run 16-bit OS/2 programs.

I ran OS/2 from v1.3 through Warp 4 until early April 2001, when, following a 
crash, on reboot, CHKDSK ran amok and trashed all my hard-drive data, and I was 
never again able to boot OS/2 even from floppies.

While I don't want to see Haiku give up 32-bit, I could point out, for 
comparison, that DragonFlyBSD is quitting 32-bit (i386) support and becoming 
amd64-only beginning with v4.0, while (Free, Net and Open)BSD, and Linux too, 
will still support i386 among many other architectures.

One thought I have regarding gcc2 is that it must be far past end-of-life 
upstream.

Tom


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