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Ask HN: Does anyone else use a 32 bit computer regularly?

4 pointsby luke2mover 3 years ago
My primary computer was 32 bit x86 until last year. I still use it often, but more and more software is dropping support.

3 comments

h2odragonover 3 years ago
RasPi&#x27;s running TV&#x27;s count, right?<p>Also have one on my desk to run one as a minimal terminal in case my &quot;real&quot; machine goes down, so i can have my keyboard and trackball and comfortable desk arrangement to work with even while fixing the bigger system. I manage to need that one once every 6 months or so, for some reason or another.<p>I think I shut down my last 32bit <i>x86 system</i> in 2019. It was a laptop that had been serving as a home lan router &#x2F; firewall &#x2F; file server for almost a decade.
yyykover 3 years ago
32bit ARMv7 is arguably better supported these days. Plenty of people still use smartphones with this arch, and software is widely available (you didn&#x27;t say it had to be x86!).<p>I can&#x27;t recall my last &#x27;real&#x27; i386 processor, I switched as soon as possible to one of the first AMDs to support 64 bit. I wonder, which 32bit x86 computer do you use which is still working? It must be old, at least a decade. Last Intel made 32bit, there were a few 32bit atom notebooks about a decade ago, but I recall these were rather weak even at the time?
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stewxover 3 years ago
Why?