Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-05-22, 16:56:
Only i that machime supports 32-bit OSs 🤣.
32-bit systems, OSs and applications are still useful today.
Like this system for example.
That's a different matter, of course.
Running a 286 laptop with Windows 3.1 is fine.
So is a Pentium II PC with Windows 98SE..
What I try to explain (oh god of English language, please help!),
that people with newer hardware have a choice not to use, say, Windows 10 x86.
Of course, it's possible and of course it's something required for limited hardware.
I had a nettop PC in 2014 that ran on a 32-Bit UEFI and wasn't fully compatible with Windows 7 x64 (originally).
But by doing so, you will only limit yourself.
And, indirectly, others too.:
As long as Windows x86 is being used, to some extent, Microsoft will continue to produce two releases of Windows.
Again, there's nothing wrong with using 32-Bit Windows per se.
It's just that it holds back Windows development.
As long as companies/developers can't expect Windows users to 100% have a 64-Bit Windows,
they will either develop both 32-Bit/64-Bit applications.
Or, more likely, 32-Bit applications only.
So why is this bad? Pointers and older Win32 development tools.
Using good, old 32-Bit compilers can lead to all sorts of overruns,
considering the huge amount of data that's processed in our age.
If 64-Bit Windows was clearly the norm (no matter if x64 or ARM), developers could explain the matter to their bosses
and could justify the need for modern compilers or the need for a code rewrite.
The same happened in the 90s with the transition from Win16 to Win32.
There was a maddive porting process going on.
Nowadays, would you take a company for serious that openly sells or runs dated Win16 applications?
PS: Again, this is no rant against 32-Bit Windows or Win32.
I myself do in fact, do love to collect and thinker with all sorts of Win16/32/s stuff.
It's merely about the drawbacks of using current 32-Bit Windows in 2021.
Edit: Windows x64/ARM do still support Win32 applications, so there's no loss.
In fact, even Windows RT does via win86emu.
Win32 still is the most important component of Windows (Win64 is based on it).
With OTVDM (third-party product), many Win16 applications can be used seamlessly on Win x64.
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