* Homer peremptorily fired off this memo:
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> Flash Player 10: Dazzling Effects, Better Performance, Runs on Linux
>
> Have they done the 64-bit version yet?
>
> [quote]
> Adobe's Tom Barclay says "Adobe is not currently providing a 64-bit
> version of Flash Player 10."
> [/quote]
>
> Will they ever?
>
> I'm running a full 64-bit OS, including applications and games, created
> and distributed Free by a handful of unpaid volunteers, and Adobe (one
> of the world's biggest software companies) can't even rebuild a single
> little plugin for 64-bit.
>
> Shameful.
Very. Even a little team like the fluxbox team supports 64-bit.
And Adobe can't make a business case for it?
Even Microsoft seems to be slowly getting ready for the 64-bit world.
--
I laid out memory so the bottom 640K was general purpose RAM and the upper
384 I reserved for video and ROM, and things like that. That is why they
talk about the 640K limit. It is actually a limit, not of the software, in
any way, shape, or form, it is the limit of the microprocessor. That thing
generates addresses, 20-bits addresses, that only can address a megabyte of
memory. And, therefore, all the applications are tied to that limit. It was
ten times what we had before. But to my surprise, we ran out of that address
base for applications within... oh five or six years people were
complaining.
-- Bill Gates, Smithsonian Institution interview (1993)
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