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No people would just use 32 bit x86 and continue with that for many more years and move to SPARC/PowerPC for the few cases where you really need 64 bit. People
by panick21_ 4y ago
No people would just use 32 bit x86 and continue with that for many more years and move to SPARC/PowerPC for the few cases where you really need 64 bit.
People not just gone use really bad processors because they have no other options.
- pjmlp 4y agoAssuming Sun and IBM would sell them to Microsoft outside their own UNIX and mainframes usage. Apparently people didn't have any problem using the bad 80x86 architecture like so many complain around here.
- panick21_ 4y agoThis was right in the time period of Windows Everywhere. Windows on MIPS, Alpha and so on. And for server workloads just using going to Unix is totally fine. People would rather run server workloads on Unix rather then using windows with shitty expensive processors. People that are unwilling to move to Unix very likely just stick around on 32bit instead.
- pjmlp 4y agoThat version of Windows died with NT 4.0, several years before Itanium was a product. We were running Windows 2000 in production, alongside Aix, HP-UX and Solaris workloads across all our customers back in 1999 - 2003, before we got hit in the first .com startup crysis.