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Jim Thompson wrote:

I'm getting the general impression that I should avoid 64-bit to make
sure that my legacy programs will still work. Is that correct?


It appears you already have a 64 bit system (AMD Athlon 64). It's the 32 bit
(and 16 bit?) backwards compatibility you have to worry about. And that's as
much a problem of the O/S no longer supporting it as most x86 compatible
h/w.

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