Ok Raystonn, I don't think you're getting my point yet.
Let me make up an example.
Karen is a 35 year old single mom. She just bought her first computer after saving up for a few months (stick with me here, people!
It's now two years later, she still has the same computer and is thinking it's time for an upgrade. She just got that promotion at work, so she figures she might as well go big. She's hearing about these new "64-bit computers" or something like that that are supposed to be really fast. She goes out and buys a Compaq with the brand new Intel 64-bit processor (hey, she likes the colors and uses AOL...she's a typical home computer user
Anyhow, she gets it home and starts it up. <font color=blue>Wow</font color=blue>, she thinks. <font color=blue>This IS really fast. Ok, this new Windows Crappy Name© 64-bit is done installing, now I think I'll install Flask and encode those .vob files I have saved.</font color=blue>
So she installs Flask and starts encoding. She goes to bed and wakes up the next morning expecting it to be done, like it was last time on her P4.<font color=blue>It's not done yet, that's odd. It should've finished really quickly.</font color=blue>. So she leaves for work, leaving it running. When she comes home, it's still not even 25% done. <font color=blue>This is odd</font color=blue>, she thinks. <font color=blue>I wonder what's taking so long, this went a lot faster before</font color=blue>.
Two days later, she's back at Radio Shack, trying to return her computer. <font color=green>None of my software will work</font color=green>, she says. <font color=green>Wait, you're telling me I have to buy all new software just to get it to run properly? I don't have money for all of that, I just skipped my rent to pay for the computer!</font color=green>
<font color=red>Now is it making more sense??</font color=red>
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Quarter pounder inside<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by FatBurger on 08/09/01 12:34 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
True, but how long has it taken? In those several years, would you want all the people still running 16-bit to have to run it at a snail's pace?But here we are with operating systems (Windows 2000 and XP) that no longer contain any 16-bit code.
Let me make up an example.
Karen is a 35 year old single mom. She just bought her first computer after saving up for a few months (stick with me here, people!

It's now two years later, she still has the same computer and is thinking it's time for an upgrade. She just got that promotion at work, so she figures she might as well go big. She's hearing about these new "64-bit computers" or something like that that are supposed to be really fast. She goes out and buys a Compaq with the brand new Intel 64-bit processor (hey, she likes the colors and uses AOL...she's a typical home computer user

Anyhow, she gets it home and starts it up. <font color=blue>Wow</font color=blue>, she thinks. <font color=blue>This IS really fast. Ok, this new Windows Crappy Name© 64-bit is done installing, now I think I'll install Flask and encode those .vob files I have saved.</font color=blue>
So she installs Flask and starts encoding. She goes to bed and wakes up the next morning expecting it to be done, like it was last time on her P4.<font color=blue>It's not done yet, that's odd. It should've finished really quickly.</font color=blue>. So she leaves for work, leaving it running. When she comes home, it's still not even 25% done. <font color=blue>This is odd</font color=blue>, she thinks. <font color=blue>I wonder what's taking so long, this went a lot faster before</font color=blue>.
Two days later, she's back at Radio Shack, trying to return her computer. <font color=green>None of my software will work</font color=green>, she says. <font color=green>Wait, you're telling me I have to buy all new software just to get it to run properly? I don't have money for all of that, I just skipped my rent to pay for the computer!</font color=green>
<font color=red>Now is it making more sense??</font color=red>
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Quarter pounder inside<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by FatBurger on 08/09/01 12:34 PM.</EM></FONT></P>