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And, the old versions of Hiren's Boot CD are still available for download[1], which are 32bit... [1] https://www.hirensbootcd.org/old-versions/ https://www.hir
by Alupis 7y ago
And, the old versions of Hiren's Boot CD are still available for download[1], which are 32bit...
[1] https://www.hirensbootcd.org/old-versions/ https://www.hirensbootcd.org/old-versions/
- ianai 7y agoThere are people out there who refuse to upgrade their old “enterprise” software and are forced to run 32 bit OSes or old hardware. It all helps.
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- JorgeGT 7y agoIn my lab we have a perpetual license of an expensive scientific software... that is sadly 32 bits only. So we keep a 32 bit PC just for that.
- ailideex 7y agoYou can run x86 code on an AMD64/x86-64 CPU.
- ianai 7y agoSo I got downvoted because people know about compatibility support in CPUs? Like you’re telling me something I don’t know? Lol
- mlyle 7y agoI downvoted you too, for whinging and not addressing other peoples' arguments.
- ianai 7y agoI’m not whining. I stated a case to be glad about having legacy options hanging around. You’re reading intonation into my words that isn’t there. Stop it, please. Here’s an upvote to try and push this a positive direction against the momentum.
- rando444 7y agoWould you please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the HN guidelines. Comments about voting are highly discouraged. Additionally voting is not about your feelings, or even whether you agree with the person. Everyone should vote based on what is relevant to the conversation. Anything not relevant to the topic at hand should be downvoted. It's not a personal attack, it's a way to clean up the thread to prevent people from reading irrelevant posts that don't add anything to the discussion.
- proverbialbunny 7y agoThat's rather unusual. 64 bit OSes run 32 bit software. Usually a lack of support comes from the software being legacy software, not so much being 32 bit. You may already know this, but often times Wine tends to be a better option than running an insecure OS. Wine is more compatible with 32bit Windows software (and old windows software) than Windows is.
- cellularmitosis 7y agoApple just released Catalina, which no longer runs 32-bit apps.
- zyx321 7y agoAnd Microsoft just announced the SurfaceX, which runs ARM and x86 apps, but not x64.
- ianai 7y agowine is never going to work for the software in question. Thanks for playing along and downvoting me for knowing something you don’t.
- thenewnewguy 7y agoRunning a 32 bit OS won't prevent this from working, as it's a boot CD.