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Re:I Almost Bought a Scanner by Gigachad on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @06:12PM (#34525493)
Yes, Apple only cares about allowing supported software to easily keep running. This means they can implement more modern and secure systems than Microsoft is able to achieve. It's also the reason Windows is plagued with 32 bit software currently in development as MS has no way to push for the removal of obsolete features.
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Re:I Almost Bought a Scanner by cm2187 on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @06:33PM (#34525715)
And also the reason why no large company will touch macos (and I imagine it is the same thing server side).
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Re:I Almost Bought a Scanner by wizzwizz4 on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @06:25PM (#34525626)
> It's also the reason Windows is plagued with 32 bit software currently in development

What's wrong with 32-bit software? If you don't need more than 4GB of virtual memory, you've got half the memory footprint for pointers.

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Re:I Almost Bought a Scanner by Gigachad on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @06:32PM (#34525708)
One major issue is it can't handle dates any further than 2038 which is getting uncomfortably close, especially when you have to handle future dates.
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Re:I Almost Bought a Scanner by wizzwizz4 on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @07:07PM (#34526064)
Windows doesn't use UNIX time. The SYSTEMTIME structure can go up to the year 30827. See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/minwinba....
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Re:I Almost Bought a Scanner by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday January 26, 2023 @01:55AM (#34528503)
64-bit time_t works perfectly fine on 32-bit systems. That is completely unrelated to machine word size.
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