What is "the platform" on Win64?

[Ken Ray]

On 5/21/09 10:06 AM, "Richard Gaskin" <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:

> The Dictionary lists these values for "the platform":
> 
>     MacOS           any Mac OS, OS X, or Darwin system
>     Linux           Linux for Intel or PowerPC architecture
>     BSD             BSD UNIX (BSDI, FreeBSD)
>     HP-9000/700     HP-UX
>     SGI IRIS        Silicon Graphics IRIX
>     IBM RS/6000     AIX
>     Intel SCO       SCO Open DeskTop
>     Intel SVR4      Solaris for x86 architecture
>     SPARC           SPARC SunOS
>     SPARC Solaris   SPARC Solaris
>     Win32           Windows (any version post-3.1)
> 
> What does "the platform" return on 64-bit Windows systems?

"Win32"

Although I'm sure there should be some way to determine you're on a 64-bit
system... 

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
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