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  • With 16bit, programmers had to deal with far pointers, near pointers, segmentation. That was a lot harder than the flat linear 32 bit pointers. Also, the switch to 32bit was largely simultaneous with a switch to protected mode virtual memory, another huge quality of life improvement. The switch from 32 bit to 64 bit on x86 didn’t change anything about how programmers had to write their code.