Hellfire103@sopuli.xyz to Linux Memes@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 1 year agoChromebooks are objectively the worst kind of computersopuli.xyzimagemessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up1359arrow-down121
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minus-squarethejodielinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·1 year ago“32bit systems are a lot younger than 20 years” I don’t follow. The i386 is almost 40 years old now. Can you elaborate?
minus-squarevrighter@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·1 year agoit may have began 4 decades ago, but what matters is that only one decade ago new hardware was still being released.
minus-squarethejodielinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoAnd new processors stopped supporting x86-32 a decade ago?
minus-squarevrighter@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agonope, new processors still do. At least on intel/amd processors. it’s only software that decided to drop support
“32bit systems are a lot younger than 20 years”
I don’t follow. The i386 is almost 40 years old now. Can you elaborate?
it may have began 4 decades ago, but what matters is that only one decade ago new hardware was still being released.
And new processors stopped supporting x86-32 a decade ago?
nope, new processors still do. At least on intel/amd processors. it’s only software that decided to drop support