A Proposal To Go 64-bit Only With Fedora 23

[dungeon]

If they would, then they'd end up the way that alpha and ppc did - in history :-P. The x86 compatibility was the thing that made amd64 win over intels 64bit variant. Backward compatibility is the main strength of the whole x86 family, other platforms got pushed aside even if they were better at certain tasks, because they weren't backward compatible. Legacy software is a huge force... Currently it's the thing that drives windows dominance on the desktop.

Yeah, but 3DMark 2001 does not work on Windows 7 while it work in wine .

Dungeon Siege 1 has fullscreen borked and many other things borked in ddraw... Rayman 2, game from 1999 has foging broken on current hardware because it does not support 16bit depth anymore, etc...

Compatibility for 15+ years software on current hardware and drivers is in shitty state anyway and you need to really lucky if it works.

[Cyber Killer]

Yeah, but 3DMark 2001 does not work on Windows 7 while it work in wine .

Dungeon Siege 1 has fullscreen borked and many other things... Rayman 2, game from 1999 has foging broken on current hardware because it does not support 16bit depth anymore, etc...

Compatibility for 15+ years software on current hardware and drivers is in shitty state anyway and you need to really lucky if it works.

Games/game engines/real time 3d graphics always are a special case. But there's a boatload of other software, often specialized software, that doesn't get new versions or ports, costs a lot of money or isn't available any more, etc...

[dungeon]

Games/game engines/real time 3d graphics always are a special case. But there's a boatload of other software, often specialized software, that doesn't get new versions or ports, costs a lot of money or isn't available any more, etc...

Those poeple should use Windows XP and slighty older hardware (or up to some version which works, that can be Windows 98 too), for mission critical tasks. And i don't think Windows 10 will care too much about those, how time goes it just care less if not at all.

[AJSB]

Games/game engines/real time 3d graphics always are a special case. But there's a boatload of other software, often specialized software, that doesn't get new versions or ports, costs a lot of money or isn't available any more, etc...

...and i can give you right now an example:
Software for my Vinyl Cutter.

[AJSB]

Those poeple should use Windows XP and slighty older hardware (or up to some version which works, that can be Windows 98 too), for mission critical tasks. And i don't think Windows 10 will care too much about those, how time goes it just care less if not at all.

LOL, your answer is to use a unsupported OS plagged by new kinds of virus and malware

[chithanh]

This piece of news is not very surprising, considering that Red Hat now targets 64 bit x86 and ARM servers.

[dungeon]

LOL, your answer is to use a unsupported OS plagged by new kinds of virus and malware

Yeah, those very old apps who need compatibility probably are not on networked machines... there is no security issues, so they can easily run Windows 98 for the next 50 years

[dungeon]

8bit 16 color sound sounds cool

[AJSB]

Yeah, those very old apps who need compatibility probably are not on networked machines... there is no security issues, so they can easily run Windows 98 for the next 50 years

Depends, in the case i talked about a vinyl cutter, its connected to Net, alright.

[duby229]

Depends, in the case i talked about a vinyl cutter, its connected to Net, alright.

Why?...