Paul on Nostr: TIL: Intel is working on X86S, which involves dropping support for 16 and 32 bit ...
TIL: Intel is working on X86S, which involves dropping support for 16 and 32 bit operating systems (you'll still be able to run 32 bit code under a 64 bit OS, and presumably a 32 bit guest VM on a 64 bit host).
Feels like a major break from the usual extreme backwards compatibility of x86 (compared with Apple hardware for example).
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