--- In soft_radio@yahoogroups.com, Andreas Troschka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > In the meanwhile, using the hardware we have now!, WinXP seems to better satisfy the SDR/DSP needs as Vista can do. Seen from this point of view, what Alberto is saying makes really sense, isn't it? > > vy 73s de Andreas - ik2wqi >
The problem is he's basing it not on first hand experience but on rumors and FUD .... And the ironic part is Vista is much more stable than XP when it first came out, XP was slower than Win2K uyntil SP1 came out, as late as 2004 it hadn't been adopted by Big Biz in large numbers, you had to upgrade a lot of hardware to make it run on an older machine .... Gee sound familiar? A buggy sound or video driver will take down XP in a heartbeat, not so with Vista because it's in User Space where it belongs ... I have yet to see a bluescreen or have it lock up on me, although I did have Pinnacle's poorly written drivers keep it from booting once (Unplug the device and reload the old drivers, took about 10 minutes to fix) .... Other than a lack of soundcard drivers it was hands down the most trouble free Windows upgrade Ive ever done and I've been running Windows since 1.0 (I still have the original 5 1/4 floppies) .... And I've run untold versions of Linux since I first tried Redhat in 1996 including a 100% complied version of Gentoo (Fast until you included all the downtime recompiling EVERY time there was a patch or upgrade) and even maintained a server farm for 3 years for (mostly American Indian) NGO's that ran on Redhat .... it's not like I tried it once and said forget it, I ran it exclusively for two years when XP came out hoping it would be practical to dump Windows ... it wasn't, I have too much hardware unsupported or poorly supported in Linux Basically everything that people are saying or complaining about in Vista, they were complaining about when XP first came out but now people talk as if XP is Da Bomb? Vista's new sound model has a lot of potential for DSP and sound apps and it would be wise to get on board and do the research now or get left behind later ... For instance the WaveRT driver model will make ASIO obsolete, Scheduling will work like it does in a low latency patched Linux kernel finally giving audio streaming the priority it needs, something ASIO can't and won't ever be able to do ... The Multimedia Class Scheduling Service is another bright spot for DSP, properly implemented and supported in the soundcard drivers dropouts should become a thing of the past ... Learning how to make these work will make DSP in Vista faster and more stable than XP could have ever dreamed of .... These aren't Microsoft's ideas, they are the ideas of the people who make and write high end DAW software (Hardcore DSP) and provide DAW interface Pro Soundcards) and suggested to Microsoft when MS finally got smart and started asking DAW developers what the wanted and needed from an OS How Vista benchmarks for Office Apps is entirely irrelevent to audio and DSP in Vista ... if you run drivers and software based on the XP models of course it's not going to benchmark well in Vista SDR is the wave of the future for RF and Vista's new sound models are the wave of the future for DSP/DAW .... I'll end this here but don't get mad at me in a couple of years when I get to say "I told ya so" ... JR
