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How long do you think a major OS should have 32 bit support? Everything cant be supported forever.
by longcommonname 7y ago
How long do you think a major OS should have 32 bit support? Everything cant be supported forever.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y agoWhy not? We live in a world where the latest processor from Intel still boots into 16 bit real mode, and we have emulators and virtual machines.
- ryanianian 7y agoThere is a real cost to supporting old architectures and associated risk in telling users they can run production workloads on them.
- badsectoracula 7y agoThere is also a real cost to dropping support for software working perfectly fine.
- asveikau 7y agoWhen a big company explains away how they are not doing something because of engineering resource constraints, put your skeptic's hat on, it's likely an exaggeration.
- Razengan 7y agoYou can still use emulators on macOS Catalina (the version that drops 32-bit support.)
- mappu 7y agoAside from the noticably lower memory usage due to smaller pointers - Microsoft found that x86_32 is the lingua franca for WoA emulation. If all the binaries are x86_64 and there are legal problems emulating it, there might be problems switching Macs to ARM CPUs.
- wtallis 7y ago> and an emulation layer is a legal nightmare It really isn't. And Apple can win that fight even if Intel tries to cause trouble.