26 Dec
2017
26 Dec
'17
10:59 p.m.
On Tue, December 26, 2017 2:34 pm, Will Godfrey wrote:
It seems everyone is dropping support for 32 bit
machines these days -
64 bit x86 based processors were first released over 12 years ago. I
don't think you have been able to buy a 32 bit only x86 processor for over
5 years now, so the numbers of 32 bit only machines is dwindling.
It makes me wonder how long it will be before single
core machines go the
same way.
That depends on what you mean. You have not been able to purchase a new
single core processor in quite a few years. As far as I am aware there
are no distributions which build without SMP support, but an SMP capable
kernel can run on a single core, so the situation with core count is not
quite the same as the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit builds.
--
Chris Caudle