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   Hey Benny!   
      
    BP> you miss my point   
      
   Business as usual.  ;-)   
      
    BP> i have a 80286 in my gvp amiga harddisk controller, so i could   
    BP> use msdos   
      
   I suppose except it escapes me why anyone would willingly do that.   
      
    BP> or maybe linux for 16 bit arch :)   
      
   What are you smoking over there?  That was never possible as far as I am   
   aware.  minix would be the only real choice if one wishes to waste electicity   
   for little to no reward.  It's all abandonware for good reason.   
      
    BP> 64bit will not see any change on it   
      
   So in other words it matters little to nothing whether or not a 64 bit   
   processor can emulate a lesser platform (32 bit) given nobody is noticing   
   anyhow.  Also where are you finding any REAL development on 32 bit platforms   
   anymore?  Speaking for myself, I was more than happy to create my very first   
   64 bit system using dual p3's which are 32 bit given at the time there was no   
   distribution that was pure 64 bit at the time.  It worked great once installed   
   and booted on an actual x86_64 platform.   
      
    BP> gentoo gcc needs 4Gb ram to compile now, with 1Gb it does not work   
      
   That doesn't surprise me.  Although I am not a big fan of bloat, in this case   
   both economics and available applications make's current development extremely   
   attractive.  Also when targetting a minimal system, it doesn't require 4Gb of   
   ram to run ... unless we're talking firefox and other greedy applications that   
   really don't have much meaningful to offer in return.  gcc is worth the extra   
   bytes given all it has to offer in return.  These days that is a very rare   
   trait and I for one am thankful for it.   
      
    BP> 8bit and 16bit hardware boards still lives on self made boards on   
    BP> facebook, i wonder why ?   
      
   I say they can keep them.  They have diddley-squat.   
      
   Life is good,   
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