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Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 27.05.2023, 03:17

Already saw this on Phoronix, not a shock. Doubt it will save even 5% of heat / energy / fabrication cost or speed much up. (They probably waste more money on senseless marketing.)

For example, the Venix/86 emulator is "currently running using vm86 on a FreeBSD/i386 bhyve instance hosted on a FreeBSD/amd64 machine".

Since I don't expect VT-X to disappear, this doesn't hurt much. (Many projects like VirtualBox and QEMU no longer run atop 32-bit host OSes anymore.)

Complete thread:

• Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support - marcov, 25.05.2023, 11:59 (Announce)
  • Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support - Rugxulo, 27.05.2023, 03:17
    • Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support - DosWorld, 27.05.2023, 08:18
      • Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support - tkchia, 27.05.2023, 13:03
        • Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support - marcov, 28.05.2023, 12:59
          • Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support - tkchia, 28.05.2023, 15:27
      • Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support - alexfru, 31.05.2023, 02:22
        • kill AVX instead - Rugxulo, 01.06.2023, 03:07
          • kill AVX instead - marcov, 01.06.2023, 13:36
        • Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support - RayeR, 06.06.2023, 13:48
    • Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support - marcov, 28.05.2023, 12:58
  • Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support - RayeR, 27.05.2023, 13:10
    • Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support - KormaX, 29.05.2023, 23:52
      • Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support - RayeR, 30.05.2023, 01:42
        • Intel's X86-S ISA specification document - RayeR, 06.06.2023, 07:25
  • Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support - glennmcc, 30.05.2023, 22:19
  • Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support - DosWorld, 31.01.2025, 17:23