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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I expect the engineers are telling the marketing people "No! You can't do that. You'll scare everyone that it's incompatible."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

32bits is compatible with 64bits, why wouldn't 128 bits be too?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

64bit cut out 16bit compatibility. So I'm guessing the fear is that 128 would cut 32.