Many programs i use on my computer ( steam for example ) are still using 32 bits according to task manager. Why is that ? Why haven’t evertything moved to x86-64 ? According to a quick google search, the last 32-bits cpu was sold in 2002… so it can’t be for compatibility reasons, can it ?
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There are still people who for various reasons are running 32-bit operating systems. By changing to 64-bit you lose this market. And for some applications there simply is no incentive to change it. I am sure some people have spent a bit of effort to try to compile the application for 64-bit. But when this failed or at least could not be verified properly they dropped the idea instead of actually spending the resources required to port it to 64-bit.
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