> Of course, you still need an x86-64 computer or whatever. I doubt they'll stop making them any time soon though=) There is plenty of hardware that would have

> Of course, you still need an x86-64 computer or whatever. I doubt they'll stop making them any time soon though=) There is plenty of hardware that would have been made 10 years ago that is no longer available. So if your system is based on such hardware, eventually it will fail, only because you wont be able to find spare parts to keep it running. Then as soon as you upgrade to newer hardware, you will run into OS issues where your older OS no longer works with the newer hardware. That will force you to also do an OS upgrade and that upgrade will then cause issues with your old code, which no longer runs on the new OS. So there is plenty of external factors, all outside of your control, which will cause decay in your software.