Question on 64-bit + 32-bit

Timothy Murphy gayleard at eircom.net
Sun Jun 3 11:57:32 UTC 2012


A very elementary question, I assume:
Why are 32-bit applications (as well as 64-bit)
downloaded on a 64-bit system?
Are they essential, ie would the system run without them?

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