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From: Simon Coulter <shc@flybynight.com.au>
> This whole 64-bit discussion is a bit silly. The hardware is 64-bit
> therefore the machine is 64-bit.
maybe, but for quite some time Windows and DOS were 16-bit
systems running on 386 hardware which was 32-bit, but I wouldn't
say that real-mode Windows and DOS were 32-bit computing.
What the hardware is is irrelevant as it is the software that determines
what you do on the machine. But enough of that, the point of the
origin of this thread was Larry Seltzer pointing out that the advent
of 64-bit hardware was not going to change most things ("What
happened to 64-bit computing?"). And many people were quick
to claim that they had been doing 64-bit computing for several
years, which, of course, they had not. As all this now is obvious
and has been put through the grinder several times, maybe we
can let the thread die.
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