Date   : Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:45:36 +0100
From   : afra@... (Phill Harvey-Smith)
Subject: Calculating CRCs

On 13/06/2011 09:43, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 17:12 +0100, Sprow wrote:
>> Quite. Since it's a CRC32 algorithm it would be a bit odd to use anything
>> but uint32_t for that variable, and in 1997 I think the only 64 bit machines
>> were probably working in the met office,
>
> I think you've slipped a decade there.  I had an Alpha on my desk in
> 1996, and 64-bit MIPS and SPARC were also fairly widespread by that
> time.

As where 64 bit SGIs we cirtainly had them at warwick when I started 
here in 1998.

cheers.

Phill.