Re: 64-Bit Land

2010-01-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 18:21 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-01-06 18:13 +0100, Freeman wrote: > > > But is somebody still building 32-bit cpu's? > > Yes, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture, for instance. > It will be fun when all those embedded devices break. > > Sven > An

Re: 64-Bit Land

2010-01-06 Thread Stan Hoeppner
John Hasler put forth on 1/6/2010 12:48 PM: > Freeman writes: >> But is somebody still building 32-bit cpu's? > > Of course, and 16-bit and 8-bit as well. Embedded systems vastly > outnumber pcs and are rarely 64-bit. And there are a lot of embedded 32 bit Linux systems in the wild, and many mor

Re: 64-Bit Land

2010-01-06 Thread John Hasler
Freeman writes: > But is somebody still building 32-bit cpu's? Of course, and 16-bit and 8-bit as well. Embedded systems vastly outnumber pcs and are rarely 64-bit. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: 64-Bit Land

2010-01-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-01-06 18:13 +0100, Freeman wrote: > But is somebody still building 32-bit cpu's? Yes, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture, for instance. It will be fun when all those embedded devices break. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: 64-Bit Land

2010-01-06 Thread Freeman
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 09:03:39AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-01-06 07:45 +0100, Freeman wrote: > > > Can anyone speculate on when 32-Bit Land will stop evolving and we will all > > have to part the waters and migrate to 64-Bit Land? > > I guess that there is

Re: 64-Bit Land

2010-01-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-01-06 07:45 +0100, Freeman wrote: > Can anyone speculate on when 32-Bit Land will stop evolving and we will all > have to part the waters and migrate to 64-Bit Land? I guess that there is little to worry for the next ten years. However, you should better complete the transition

64-Bit Land (was Video conversion)

2010-01-05 Thread Freeman
uld I use > > for the conversion under Debian Lenny? > > Indeo, eh? Convert it quick while you still can. Over > in 64-bit land, I can't even watch Indeo (No one has > a 64-bit Linux Indeo codec). > Can anyone speculate on when 32-Bit Land will stop evolving and we wil