On 10/31/2014 08:53 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Nobody is_buying_ 32 bit machines any more, but machines sold 10 > years ago were surprisingly robust They were also surprisingly slow. Without any hyperbole, you could almost certainly replace an entire rack of ten year old 1U servers with a single 1U server today for a very reasonable cost and see performance that's at least equal, with a fraction of the power draw (and associated ongoing costs).