Vista's problem wasn't 64 or 32bit related it was that drivers were not written for vista until it had been out nearly a year. You can blame this on MS only in that they may have not given the code to software writers soon enough.
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:06 PM, TPiwowar <t...@tjpa.com> wrote: > On Aug 26, 2009, at 7:49 AM, Jeff Wright wrote: > >> And Windows has been 64-bit for several years now. The problem has been >> in >> driver support and app compatibility, no surprise there. >> > > Precisely. Apple knows that some drivers won't work right with the 64 > kernel, but it doesn't know if you have such drivers. It suspects that you > probably do so the default is 32 bit. You can try 64 by starting up with the > "6" and "4" keys depressed and from then on it will run with the 64 kernel. > If you run into trouble you restart with "3" and "2" depressed and that puts > you back to a 32 kernel. A very elegant solution to a problem that gave > Vista users conniptions. > > What I don't understand is why WFBs have such a hard time understanding > something so simple. > > > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
