Syntactic change/

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM
Wed Apr 19 20:46:37 UTC 2006


SOTA.

  JL

Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>From SlashDot:

"You can completely ignore this [difference between a 32-bit CPU and a
64-bit CPU], because

_any_ 32-bit CPU _doesn't_ fit your needs."

Don't people usually say "... because _no_ 32-bit CPU fits your needs"?

Or do I simply need to get out more?

-Wilson Gray

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