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		smackfu on Dec 19, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista? >Everybody installs the same OS, and it transparently works for both 32-bit and 64-bit machines. Or doesn't work. Didn't the recent releases drop support for 32-bit Macs?

lilyball on Dec 19, 2012 [–]

I do believe that Mountain Lion dropped 32-bit kernel support. But Apple hasn't produced a 32-bit machine in years, and every new major version of the OS does tend to drop support for old hardware. The fact that the motivating factor here was dropping the 32-bit kernel is fairly irrelevant.

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