Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> > And maybe you ought to look up the word "deprecated" in the dictionary. It
> > is *not* a synonym for "deny"...
>
>   So OS'es are *not* going to drop support for programs using the FPU.
> They will still run older software which uses the FPU (at least on platforms
> which *have* a FPU). It's just that software written for newer 64-bit
> processors should not use it.
>
>   That's all I wanted to agree with.

And since 64-bit is the natural evolution, it'd also mean eventually no software
will use the FPU anymore...

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