>>Back to our case - I never truly bought that "64 bit is impossible, there's too much code to rewrite". They already did a similar jump from 16-bit to 32-bit, so some base for it was already there. A lot of stuff actually works by calling system services, so that's almost transparent. I figure the only part which would have to be truly rewritten would be memory handling - arrays, buffers etc. Not really impossible, just hard. The "there's too much" was just a sign along the lines of "that would require too many people and time, meaning money, which we will not give, period".
>
>Can you imagine that others, whereunder me, truly bought those stories?

Hey, they got people to believe that propane is better than charcoal for barbecue.