> But by then all existing 32-bit machines will be completely obsolete and
> we'll all have upgraded to 64-bit hardware, or at least 64-bit OS's. It
> would be absurd to think that anything running today will survive that
> long.
There are still people using PDP-8 and others still making money with PDP-8
software. Admited, these days they mostly make their money by migrating the
software away to other machines, but whatever - you should really calculate
for a _much_ longer software lifetime than normal people'd ever expect.
Ralf
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