dmd platform support - poll

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Derek Parnell" <derek at psych.ward> wrote in message 
news:nkr1wyvyj3vv$.qr1gd1h779fx.dlg at 40tude.net...
> On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:45:57 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>
>> ... judging by number of people here asking for
>> 64-bit, I find it highly unlikely that most of them have plans to work on
>> such things either.
>
> My interest in 64-bit hardware support is based on the belief that before
> too long, buying a new 32-bit platform might be a difficult thing to do.
> Five years from now, I don't want to be forced into finding a good
> second-hand machine just so I can work with D.
>

I don't want to be forced into buying a new 64-bit machine just because a 
whole bunch of "gotta have the faciest stuff out there" people have deemed 
32-bit insufficient for all computing needs. Besides, can't 64-bit machines 
run 32-bit code?