No, David is definitely not suggesting adding all 32-bit support.
Rick
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Sahananda (Jon) Wolfers <
sahana...@windhorse.biz> wrote:
> Just speaking for myself here:
>
> I have upwards of 70 machines I am responsible for running ooRexx on 32Bit
> processors (Celeron 430, Pentium 4, Northwood, Celeron M320, Barias,
> Coppermine etc..).
> They are all running Windows OSs (Mainly the now defunct XP).
> Nearly half of them are tills, so expensive to replace and built like
> tanks to last forever.
>
> I think from what David said, the question is only about ending 32Bit
> support on some or all linux distros, or is the suggestion to end all
> support for 32bit ooRexx?
>
> thanks,
>
> Jon
>
>
>
> On 9 June 2014 18:50, David Ashley <w.david.ash...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The bottom line is that any library or application that is 32 bit only
>> would not be usable in a 64 bit operating system. Perhaps the most
>> obvious library is the IBM DB2 Rexx libraries. These are 32 bit only (no
>> 64 bit libraries exist) and would not work on a 64 bit OS, no matter
>> what version of ooRexx you would use with it. A replacement library
>> would need to be found.
>>
>> Maybe this is also a good point to address Windows. At this point
>> Microsoft has not announced anything about dropping support for 32 bit
>> libraries/apps. So I think that we can safely assume Microsoft will
>> continue to support 32 bit apps and libraries since the number of 32 bit
>> only apps is still very large. Indeed, IMHO Microsoft may never be able
>> to give up 32 bit support entirely. They are between their OS rock and
>> their user apps hard place.
>>
>> David Ashley
>>
>> On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 18:19 +0100, Sahananda (Jon) Wolfers wrote:
>> > Hi David
>> >
>> >
>> > Could you just lay out for us what that would mean in terms of users
>> > still on 32bit machines and also those reliant on extensions like rexx
>> > \sql, rexxCurl etc.
>> >
>> >
>> > thanks,
>> >
>> >
>> > Jon
>>
>>
>>
>>
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