== Quote from Adam D. Ruppe (destructiona...@gmail.com)'s article > On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 05:40:31PM +0000, dsimcha wrote: > > Pardon my ignorance, but who still uses 16-bit? I thought even most > > embedded > > systems in this day and age are at least 32-bit. > I sometimes still work on old point of sale systems that run MS-DOS.
Yes, but D is explicitly *not* supposed to be for legacy systems. Of course, I wouldn't mind 16-bit support if it only affects things at an implementation level, but I absolutely don't want the language to accumulate a bunch of spec-level artifacts from this.
