Enquiry,,,

Paul paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk
Thu Feb 1 23:52:49 UTC 2007


Hi,

> > I think you mean 4Gb of HD space and not RAM. Hell, my main box here is
> > an x86_64 beast of a machine and that only has 1.5Gb of RAM
> What I mean is that according to this list and other resources, x86_64
> has a few more problems then i386 due to (mostly) closed source 32-bit
> only programs and drivers and (in some cases) programs assuming 32-bit
> where now there is 64. And the primary advantage of running native
> 64-bit is that a process can address much more memory. So unless you
> need that extra memory addressing you might want to run 32-bit. Tell
> me, why are you running 64-bit?

I bought a board and processor incredibly cheaply. They're 64 bit, so I
run the 64 bit version.

I don't run any closed source 32 bit stuff. Infact, I don't run anything
that's closed source.
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