Anthony de Boer via Talk said on Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:41:31 -0400
On Jul 30, 2025, at 15:33, Steve Litt via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
This might sound like first world elitism, but the 32 bit Pentium 4 was replaced by the 64 bit Pentium D in 2006.
All the world’s an Intel box? You might want to look at what AMD was up to around the time Intel was betting on the Itanium architecture.
AMD came out with 64 bit in 2003, which is even more to the point.
I worry about climate change. I worry about systemd. I worry about the end of democracy. I worry about H5N1 bird flu. I worry about nuclear war. I worry about Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and all the other monopolies increasingly owning our world. Obsolescence of 32 bit computers in 2038? Not so much.
A lot of infrastructure still runs on 32-bit, and Linux gets into some amazing places without bringing along a whole desktop environment. Your computer and phone will be fine, but I worry about wee systems the world takes for granted and forget totally about until that day in January 2038.
LOL, Y2K all over again. We see it coming and do nothing. We see it coming and do nothing. Then, a year from drop-dead, the sky is falling. Same with the Python 2.7 to 3.x. 10 years of warning, and people are still bitching about that transition. As far as the wee systems, if they aren't important enough to remember, they're not important enough to cause a disaster. I wonder if there's a piece of diagnostic software that could be run on networks to sniff out anything 32 bit. SteveT Steve Litt http://444domains.com