"To my surprise it went through an XP boot procedure!!"
The base system MBR bootloader for Windows 7,8 and 10 is still from XP. Technically there's only ever been three, 3.1, 95, and XP.
Also there is a general torch passing going on in Linux concerning 32bit, but as long as there are working 32bit machines there will be Linux 32bit OSs to run on them, though I suspect the focus of such OSs will slowly narrow finally settling on niche user tasks. I think some devs of OSs like Knoppix will stay to the end, and hobbyists (I still have a working i486 Compaq running Dos) will keep 32bit around for a long time to come, and some Windows programs will lag behind the curve until there are 64bit replacements.
The US will soon be starting up its 200 petaflop supercomputer. The march forward in computer technology relentlessly compounds itself. New mathematics causes new mathematics. Consider the last of the Unix mainframe/workstation OSs circa late eighties and early nineties facing the Windows 95 network/PC changeover. The speed of the changes in the last 30 years is mind boggling. People dream things and then build them but in computing things are built that generate new dreams with each innovation. Dreams come true and spawn more dreams. We still build houses and cars about the same and arguments could be made for older building methods making better product but computing is not like that. It exponentially compounds its possibilliity for innovation as it goes forward, so yes the pace is awfully fast. LL will be far better off relieved of the maintainence burden of the 32bit version. It's just the nature of things.
TC
The base system MBR bootloader for Windows 7,8 and 10 is still from XP. Technically there's only ever been three, 3.1, 95, and XP.
Also there is a general torch passing going on in Linux concerning 32bit, but as long as there are working 32bit machines there will be Linux 32bit OSs to run on them, though I suspect the focus of such OSs will slowly narrow finally settling on niche user tasks. I think some devs of OSs like Knoppix will stay to the end, and hobbyists (I still have a working i486 Compaq running Dos) will keep 32bit around for a long time to come, and some Windows programs will lag behind the curve until there are 64bit replacements.
The US will soon be starting up its 200 petaflop supercomputer. The march forward in computer technology relentlessly compounds itself. New mathematics causes new mathematics. Consider the last of the Unix mainframe/workstation OSs circa late eighties and early nineties facing the Windows 95 network/PC changeover. The speed of the changes in the last 30 years is mind boggling. People dream things and then build them but in computing things are built that generate new dreams with each innovation. Dreams come true and spawn more dreams. We still build houses and cars about the same and arguments could be made for older building methods making better product but computing is not like that. It exponentially compounds its possibilliity for innovation as it goes forward, so yes the pace is awfully fast. LL will be far better off relieved of the maintainence burden of the 32bit version. It's just the nature of things.
TC
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