alt Hacker NewsThat sounds like the same ugly hack that caused programs not to be “32 bit clean” back in the day for Macs
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rwmj • today at 4:20 PM
Ah yes, these 68000 pointers have a spare 8 bits for me to use! Because nothing will ever need more than 16 MB of memory. Sigh.
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One difference is that the Mac OS itself was not initially 32-bit clean, with the top byte being used by the Memory Manager.