Re: amd64 running on Intel Celeron and Pentium? (was: [SECURITY] [DSA 5113-1] firefox-esr security update)

On 13.04.22 19:18, Levis Yarema wrote:

> If I would get an x64 CPU from a Linux pro, sure I would take it. 
> Otherwise I would not recommend to just take any old hardware for 
> exchange with my working one since not all of it was easily well 
> supported by Linux these days, as far as I can remember.
>
    You can not replace any i386 machine with x64. Some old programs I 
am running only work with Windows XP and the serial and/or parallel 
port. Not every computer has that. However I do also need Linux, mainly 
for processing my data.