Hi, I'm a new IT personnel at a CPA Firm.

While most of my workload involves IT, I am helping submit extensions in the last few weeks before deadline.

I hate to have to be the one to drop this question partly because i feel responsible for not providing a sufficiently responsive computer system for accountants to work on, efficiently-- I usually judge computer usability by processor frequency, cores, and ram and don't personally notice how slow proseries is, but working in proseries is **UNBEARABLY*** SLOW even on what is otherwise a STRONG machine.

My question is: Will proseries eventually be rewritten with 64bit data path compatibility?  it's been 15 years at least since the hardware has been made available that has upgraded from the 32 bit data path to 64.  Essentially we have the option to send traffice down a 64 lane highway, but the proseries software will only let us take advantage of 32 lanes.