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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A surprising number of embedded devices (you know, the ones controlling machinery in factories and stuff) are still running 32-bit processors.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

But you can still do 64 bit math on a 32 bit processor, if you have a carry/borrow flag.