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AMD64 Surpasses i386 As Debian's Most Popular Architecture
An anonymous reader writes with a quick note about the changing tides of computer architecture. From the article: "Bill Allombert announced [yesterday] via the Debian-devel mailing list that the X86_64 version of Debian has now surpassed all of the other supported architectures by a narrow margin. The most surprising part of this announcement however, and accompanying info-graphics provided on the Debian Popularity Contest page, is that this was not already true."
"Who owns a system that still cannot run 64bit software?"
I have plenty of them. Two routers that are still 32 bit only. I have several embedded PC104 industrial computers that are running robotics that are 32 bit only.
you know, those of us doing REAL work with computers. We need the older 32 bit Linux OS builds.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
You do know that no 64-bit OS can run 16-bit applications without a virtual machine emulation on AMD64, right?
Once the processor is in 64-bit mode it cannot get back to 16-bit mode without a processor reset. Not even Linux can thunk from 64-bit back to 16-bit, because the processor architecture makes that impossible.
Your suggestion that "windows flopped" due to this is horse shit.
"His name was James Damore."