I was recently reading Tracy Kidder’s excellent book Soul of a New Machine.
The author pointed out what a big deal the transition to 32-Bit computing was.
However, in the last 20 years, I don’t really remember a big fuss being made of most computers going to 64-bit as a de facto standard. Why is this?
As someone who started on/with 8 bit computers, it was all just another round of ho-hum. All the other changes were really about major hardware changes, whereas 32->64 was just a slide and a less than usual price increase.