Two Questions

[Kagamin]

On Friday, 14 February 2014 at 19:29:28 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> Programming world is naturally elitist. There is nothing just 
> about it. Problem to solve is making more modern h/w available 
> for interested souls, not reverting to write 32-bit programs.

There's no software solution to hardware problems.

On Saturday, 15 February 2014 at 07:04:45 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> Windows. And it would
> be nice if we could get to the point where everyone is on 
> 64-bit OSes so that
> we can stop worrying about about supporting 32-bit software 
> outside of
> emulators or virtual machines.

Virtualization is a good use case for 32-bit: you can run many 
guest oses on one machine and ensure their 32-bit software 
doesn't consume lots of memory just because it's 32-bit.