Reply to post: Re: Pentium 4 didn't suck. @Gordan

FIFTEEN whole dollars on offer for cranky Pentium 4 buyers

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Re: Pentium 4 didn't suck. @Gordan

¿Are you serious?

That would be VERY expensive, as you would have to test all the binaries.. and support them.

When I still made C++ and VB programs, we just compiled for the minimum processor we expected as target. That would be a 486, but with Pentium div bug "fixed". And I'm talking up to 2001, compiling for 486 or Pentium.

This is also the reason why now, at the end of 2014, many programs are still compiled in 32bit: It will work in both 32 and 64 bit worlds, and you just haver to check one of them.

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