Hello Jernej,
JS> Exactly - it's the future, right now it's not widespread enough yet. There
JS> are still low-end CPUs sold that don't support long mode yet, and even
JS> though 64bit XP and Vista are available, they're currently spread even less
JS> than Linux. And given the number of 32bit programs available today, you can
JS> be certain that support for running them will be around for a long long time
JS> (it's been 11 years since Windows 95 came out, and only now the support for
JS> running 16bit programs has been dropped - and only on 64bit versions of the
JS> OS).
On Win 2000 I could run almost all 16-bit apps.
When I switched to Win XP many of the apps didn't work anymore.
So IMO at launch of XP 16-bit has begun to be fased out.
The things that worked, worked 'by accident'
The upgraded 16-bit apps where not fixed 16-bit apps but 32-bit apps.
I guess it boils down to the definition of dropped.
OTOH a software company should be very aware of the MS/Intel/AMD marketing.
Very soon the masses will consider everything without a Vista label unsafe.
And everything that isn't 64-bit half the speed of 32-bit apps.
Not because it's true, but because of the marketing of especially Intel and MS.
A while back a 64-bit was high end/expensive.
Now they are very cheap. I predict a good 64-bit year.
Wishful thinking...
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Best regards,
Tony
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