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minus-squareWasPentalivelinkfedilinkEnglish5•7 days ago<Padme mode> Hopefully we are all working on 64 bit dates, right? right? </Padme mode> :^)
minus-square@HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish1•6 days agoA surprising number of embedded devices (you know, the ones controlling machinery in factories and stuff) are still running 32-bit processors.
minus-squareWasPentalivelinkfedilinkEnglish1•6 days agoBut you can still do 64 bit math on a 32 bit processor, if you have a carry/borrow flag.
minus-square@CrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish5•7 days agoWhat, and miss out on all the overtime pay from fixing everything at the last minute?
<Padme mode> Hopefully we are all working on 64 bit dates, right? right? </Padme mode> :^)
A surprising number of embedded devices (you know, the ones controlling machinery in factories and stuff) are still running 32-bit processors.
But you can still do 64 bit math on a 32 bit processor, if you have a carry/borrow flag.
What, and miss out on all the overtime pay from fixing everything at the last minute?