Jud McCranie mentioned this to Jeroen Pluimers:
 JM> In 1999 Intel is abandoning the x86 archeture with the 64-bit
 JM> "Merced" CPU.  Sometime after that, Miscrosoft is releasing an
 JM> entirely new OS for it (otherwise it has to do emulation, which
 JM> is very inefficient).  Miscrosoft always wants to screw other
 JM> software companies, so they're going to make it very difficult
 JM> for them (and MS gets years of head start developing apps for
 JM> the new OS).
Okay, this is off-topic.  Let's keep the discussion to Delphi, okay?  Thanks.
                              ...Gary Weinfurther, DELPHI Moderator
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