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>Legacy systems and architectures can’t be around forever. Why not? The bits don't decay.. Yes, this leads to an architectural mess, but I'm talking about a c

• manuelabeledo 3y ago
  > Why not? > Yes, this leads to an architectural mess Right there. There's no notable advantage in supporting a very small minority of the applications out there, at the cost of keeping units useless for the 99%.
  • bear8642 3y ago
    > There's no notable advantage... Potentially one if a large customer's paying you for it. At work, I'm helping a client upgrade from a decade old version (v12) of our product and having to copy over the switches to keep the even older (v11 and previous) behaviours
    • manuelabeledo 3y ago
      Ten years ago was 14 years after the introduction of the x86 64-bit instruction set, and 28 years after x86-32. I’m quite sure we will be OK without support for 16-bit instructions.