[RBASE-L] - Re: OT: 64 bit OS

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Karen:

I'm with Frank on this as a very relaxed Win 7-64 user. No voodoo, no crashes, and graceful recovery when one ornery application (which crashed in Vista, WinXP and Win2000) decides to quit. Zippo maintenance on the OS itself. Running five-year old hardware.

An eclectic mix of 32 and 64bit apps run without issue or hiccup. And even the legacy printers (Epson, Lexmark) and plotters (HP) have solid drivers now. Firewire, SATA and networking have excellent support. VM capability is just icing on the cake for backward compatibility (DOS, RBase 6.5 etc.) and support (Frank, write the RB/VM User Guide, please).

Ultimate gives you Solitaire and FreeCell. Blame the changes on Vista.

Cheers,

Bruce Chitiea

SafeSectors, Inc.

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Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: OT: 64 bit OS
From: Frank Taylor <ftay...@fjohara.com>
Date: Wed, March 28, 2012 4:27 am
To: rbase-l@rbase.com (RBASE-L Mailing List)

Karen,

I would not fret about 32 or 64 bit, I have been 64 bit for years now with no issues.  Almost all vendors now have a 64 bit version of a driver or program, including Adobe who finally caved and released the 64 bit Flash.  The key is to get a machine with lots of Memory and Hard Drive space.  With the extra hard drive space you can then get VMWare and load up as many different O/S versions as you want.

With VMware Workstation you can have any OS you want at your fingertips.  I have all the Windows O/S versions loaded on my machine all the way back to Win98, although I skipped Win ME for obvious reasons.  I even use it to match the different environments and settings of locations that I support. 

n  Frank

 

Frank Taylor - Information Technology Administrator

F.J. O'Hara & Sons,  Inc - Araho Transfer Inc.

Boston, MA - Rockland, ME - Miami, FL

Direct Dial - 617-790-3093

email: ftay...@fjohara.com

 

From: rbase-l@rbase.com [mailto:rbase-l@rbase.com] On Behalf Of karentel...@cs.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 9:05 PM
To: RBASE-L Mailing List
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: OT: 64 bit OS

 

Wha??  No solitaire?  How about freecell? 

Todd's computer is Win 7 64-bit; I also don't care for the explorer.  Her ad says she got the laptop for Christmas, doesn't want it, and doesn't want to ask the giver for the receipt.

Wow, interesting responses.   Since I'm not looking forward to Win 7 anyway, forget it, I'll keep the stress level a little lower by sticking with 32-bit.  Thanks much!

Karen


In a message dated 3/27/2012 5:18:28 PM Central Daylight Time, bugl...@wi.rr.com writes:

I also don't care for the Win 7 explorer (personal opinion) and it crashes (fact).
Wonder why she's selling a new lappy for almost .5 the new price?
Ok, I do like the ability to pin icons on the taskbar and launch apps from there - the icons are always in the same position.
Doug
p.s. It also didn't come with Solitaire ;)