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Riot invokes different images in my mind, but I guess I'll have to check this one out
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Taylor Swift... Pretty and can sing too. :-)
Hows Win7 treating you? I'm thinking of upgrading my sons Vista and although its a 64 bit machine his version of Vista is 32 bit. I would think getting the 32 bit version would allow it to run most of his older game stuff. I found some good advice at http://www.techspot.com/guides/177-w...l-32bit-64bit/ It looks like everyone will eventually use 64bit operating systems but it seems the transition has been allot rougher than the 16 to 32 bit transition. Last edited by wdhpr; 25. Jan 2012 at 07:38 PM. |
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Windows 7 is fine, at least for me anyway. The only major drawback I have is it's impossible to buy an English language version here in Brazil so I have to use Ultimate with a translation pack. This is only so-so because a lot of the back-end stuff still displays in Portuguese. Not much fun when you're trying to decipher log entries for instance.
Otherwise there's always the nagging security issues associated with running Windows which just aren't there with Linux, plus I don't enjoy the same stability of mail clients and browsers in Windows as I do with Linux.
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8-bit to 16-bit 8086 was source code and addressing (segmentation) compatible so no big deal when IBM PC came out with 16-bit 8088 CPU. The PC also ran 8-bit peripherals and when they were later dropped there was lots of angst and pain. In 1985 the 32-bit 80386 CPU came out about 4 years before Windows. So it took 10 years to get 32-bit Windows 95. There were never any 8-bit apps to drop so 16-bit apps continued for another 11 years until Vista. Windows 64-bit versions came out the same year as each of the Itanium and x64 CPU architectures so we didn't have to wait 10 years this time. But this time there were two compatible software types 16-bit and 32-bit. Fortunately, Microsoft dropped 16-bit so for the first time we have a transition that is not source compatible. That is the only thing making it rougher for people as drivers can't be simply ported to 32-bit. The main part of the transition is 32-bit to 64-bit and that is actually much smoother and better managed than the 16-bit to 32-bit transition. And we're only 9 years into the transition.
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The decision to stop supporting 16-bit stuff was made because segmented memory is messy. This way they simplify with flat address spaces.
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