"Stuart" <stu...@gmx.com> wrote in message news:vjaspnvbihpgvxgqm...@forum.dlang.org... > On Saturday, 28 July 2012 at 02:38:47 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: >> On Saturday, July 28, 2012 04:31:40 Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: >>> But note, even then, that D only targets 32-bit architectures >>> and up, while C can handle 16-bit architectures. >> >> True, but I'm kind of shocked that anything 16-bit even still exists. >> _32-bit_ >> is on its way out. I thought that 16-bit was dead _years_ ago. I guess >> that >> some embedded stuff must use it. But really, I wouldn't expect the lack >> of 16- >> bit support to be much of an impediment - if any at all - and in the long >> run, >> it'll mean absolutely nothing. > > Embedded systems mostly use Java now in any case, as I understand > it.
Your understanding is obviously quite limited.