"Derek Parnell" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:45:57 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > >> ... judging by number of people here asking for >> 64-bit, I find it highly unlikely that most of them have plans to work on >> such things either. > > My interest in 64-bit hardware support is based on the belief that before > too long, buying a new 32-bit platform might be a difficult thing to do. > Five years from now, I don't want to be forced into finding a good > second-hand machine just so I can work with D. >
I don't want to be forced into buying a new 64-bit machine just because a whole bunch of "gotta have the faciest stuff out there" people have deemed 32-bit insufficient for all computing needs. Besides, can't 64-bit machines run 32-bit code?
