Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 21st Jan 2009 11:30 UTC
We've been able to drop the world of 32bit for a while now, with 64bit processors and support for them being prevalent in all popular, modern operating systems. However, where Mac OS X and Linux seem to make the move to 64bit rather effortlessly, Windows has more problems. Even though 32bit applications should run fine on 64bit Windows, some don't; and to make matters worse, drivers need to be 64bit, as there's no support for 32bit drivers in 64bit versions of Windows. Still, Gizmodo claims that with Windows 7, the time is right to take the plunge. But really, is it so? And why do Linux and Mac OS X seem to handle the transition so much easier?
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The reason they dont talk about Solaris (which has been 64 bit many years back) is maybe because they mostly talk about Windows and other non Enterprise Server OS?
That of course if you don't consider OpenSolaris into the mix...
OpenSolaris is also a desktop oriented OS and should be considered, given that it has many advantages when comparing with the rest of the OSs
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2007-08-16
Weird that they don't mention Solaris. It will run a 64-bit kernel if your hardware is 64-bit capable, and run 32 bit otherwise. And also mixing of 32 and 64 bit apps is no problem there.