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There are people out there who refuse to upgrade their old “enterprise” software and are forced to run 32 bit OSes or old hardware. It all helps.



That's rather unusual. 64 bit OSes run 32 bit software. Usually a lack of support comes from the software being legacy software, not so much being 32 bit.

You may already know this, but often times Wine tends to be a better option than running an insecure OS. Wine is more compatible with 32bit Windows software (and old windows software) than Windows is.


Apple just released Catalina, which no longer runs 32-bit apps.


And Microsoft just announced the SurfaceX, which runs ARM and x86 apps, but not x64.


In my lab we have a perpetual license of an expensive scientific software... that is sadly 32 bits only. So we keep a 32 bit PC just for that.


You can run x86 code on an AMD64/x86-64 CPU.


So I got downvoted because people know about compatibility support in CPUs? Like you’re telling me something I don’t know? Lol


I downvoted you too, for whinging and not addressing other peoples' arguments.


I’m not whining. I stated a case to be glad about having legacy options hanging around. You’re reading intonation into my words that isn’t there. Stop it, please.

Here’s an upvote to try and push this a positive direction against the momentum.


Would you please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the HN guidelines.

Comments about voting are highly discouraged.

Additionally voting is not about your feelings, or even whether you agree with the person. Everyone should vote based on what is relevant to the conversation.

Anything not relevant to the topic at hand should be downvoted. It's not a personal attack, it's a way to clean up the thread to prevent people from reading irrelevant posts that don't add anything to the discussion.




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