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To: 1FASTGLOCK45

I have a 64 bit processor and a beta 64 bit OS but not software.

So I still use the 32 bit stuff.

3 posted on 04/25/2005 7:51:48 AM PDT by dts32041 (Two words that shouldn't be used in the same sentence Grizzly bear and violate.)

Still, software makers so far haven't been willing to take on the costly task of converting popular applications to 64-bit until there is demand. While 64-bit chips have been available from AMD and Intel, computer makers haven't moved to develop many 64-bit PCs because there was no desktop operating system to run them.

This is going to be news to the folks, like a friend of mine sitting in the next room, who is running an AMD 64-bit laptop with 64-bit LINUX installed and running recompiled LINUX open source applications in 64 bit mode...

Microsoft is getting further and further behind the open source community.

17 posted on 04/25/2005 8:03:26 AM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))

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