Concerned about future 32 bit server support

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Robert Heller schreef op 09-08-2017 13:35:

> Probably not, but why run DOS? I presume that the control system is 
> likely in
> a language like C or Pascal and can probably be recompiled. My point is 
> that
> a Raspberry Pi Model 3B has much more compute resources (cpu speed,
> memory, etc.) than a pair of '486s -- it is a quad core 64-bit arm 
> processor
> with a 1Gig of RAM. And only costs about $40. What does the dual 486 
> box have
> for memory? What does it use for a hard drive? What happens when that 
> hard
> drive dies?

You know full well that software development is much more costly than 
hardware.

Changing this stuff around when you don't need to is a recipe for 
disaster.

And the only reason you would do it, would be because it would be more 
"politically correct" to so do.

There are also still thousands (millions) of IDE drives out there.

Dave just mentioned that he ran across this system as an example of 
older hardware being out there ;-).

But I can also safely say that it would cost many hours of work to 
replace it.