Also Windows 7 started to be loaded by default in his 64 bit version on most new computers. In the year 2009, Apple latest state of the of art system, Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard", was released with full support for 64 bits on the x86-64 platform. In the year 2005, Microsoft discontinued the IA-64 (another 64-bit architecture from Intel) version of Windows XP, and released Windows XP Professional 圆4 Edition.
Several Linux distributions were already supporting x86-64. In the year 2003, the very first x86-64 processor is released: the AMD64 Opteron. In the year 2001, the Linux kernel started supporting this new architecture, even if there were no processors available on the market yet.
When we say 64-bit, we are talking about x86-64, a CPU architecture designed by AMD of which the specifications were released in the year of our Lord 2000. If I got your attention so far, we can finally dive into the topic.
They are trying hard to make everyone move to 64. What may be less known is that while 32-bit apps may still run on the latest MacOS release the new development environment was stripped out of all the fancy 32-bit support, making it painful for the poor developers to even compile the game. It is no mystery that Apple decided to deprecate 32-bit apps in MacOS 10.14 "Mojave" (2018) in order to drop the support completely in the future: they are doing an amazing job reminding us about this every time we launch Steam or our beloved Europa Universalis 4. There's been a lot of fuss about 64 vs 32-bit apps lately. I thought it would be nice to give to all of you an insight of what this means, what to genuinely expect in the near future and what to definitely not expect. In these last weeks we announced that 1.28.3 was the last Europa Universalis 4 release supporting 32-bit, since we are moving toward 64-bit. You may have seen me in the Dharma Dev Clash, struggling to spread Catholicism and occasionally getting betrayed by fellow Italians and wrecked up by Venice AI Hi everyone, I am Lorenzo aka Duplo aka The Battlepope aka The Caped Crusader and I am programmer on our beloved Europa Universalis 4.
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