[Tinymux] TinyMUX for 64-bit Windows

[Michael J Wenk]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 09:58:07PM -0800, Stephen Dennis wrote:
> Perhaps more people use TinyMUX on Windows than are willing to admit
> it, but at this point, no one should really need TinyMUX compiled
> natively for 64-bit edition of Windows.
> 
> However, it does work, and it is available (as a TinyMUX 2.6 Alpha).
> It doesn't give you anything that you don't already have. All the
> built-in limits (described in LIMITS) are the same.
> 
> Jake and I spent several days tag-teaming all of the warnings,
> behavioral changes, differently-named functions, and seemingly
> arbitrary behavior differences.  Did you know that VS 2005's
> localtime() doesn't like dates beyond the year 3000 now, and it
> helpfully asserts if it sees one.
> 
> Anyway. Just to be clear. This is something for 2.6. TinyMUX 2.4 does
> not support this. Even if you have VS 2005, you can't compile TinyMUX
> 2.4 for Win64.
> 
> The primary beneficiary of this is probably more precise source code
> for AMD64 under Linux or FreeBSD. There is also the possibility that
> someone has access to a DEC Tru64 box. At one time, I ported TinyMUX
> to Tru64 Unix, and it worked, but there were still a large number of
> ignorable warnings.  There shouldn't be any more warnings, now.
> 
> 
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Back in the day(96 or 97) we ran TinyMUX (would have been a 1.X version of some
form) on 64 bit DEC Alpha running either OSF/1 or Digital Unix.  There
were a couple of warnings we worked through, and (more likely the
machine itself rather than the compile) we could not use gcc to
compile it, but it actually ran fairly well.  I didn't really notice any
benefit to it being 64 bit.  

Its cool to see 2.X on 64 bit, tho again, I really don't see the point
except for those souls that find themselves a site on a 64 bit OS.