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Old 01-11-2008
the wharf rat
 

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Re: 32bit or 64bit ?
In article <esfpT8JVIHA.5208@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>,
Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin] <andred25@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Industry or end users. For instance, suppose you start doing a lot of
>technical work that goes beyond the limits of 32 bit computing requiring
>more than 4 GBs of RAM and real 64 bit OS such as the 64 bit version of
>Vista, then you won't have to worry about changing out all your hardware to
>take advantage of it.


IMHO the real question is what could a home user do that would
require a terabyte address space? Even if you do work that requires 64 bit
it's still a chore to get an environment set up. Too much stuff needs to
be rebuilt for 64 bits.

Unless you run Solaris (ObUnix lol)

>
>Some other nice features of Vista include all device drivers must be signed


*THAT* is a ****BUG**** and NOT a feature!

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