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Windows 7 and XP are the biggest losers

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Jestertheclown said:
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Patsy Murphy said:
With the antiquated Windows you have you will need lots of third party help, it should be in a museum or on the scrapheap. I mean what can you actually run on XP.

Regards Patsym
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What can't you run on XP?
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How much RAM can you run on XP?

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128GB
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If you're still using a 32 bit system )and I don't think XP has ever been successfully produced as a 64 bit system) then it becomes immaterial as XP can only access about 3½gb of it.
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As I recall, XP x64 did exist and functioned but it was seldom seen; 64-bit applications and device drivers were few and 64-bitness offered little advantage for most users at the time.
 
Austinian said:
Austinian said:
If you're still using a 32 bit system )and I don't think XP has ever been successfully produced as a 64 bit system) then it becomes immaterial as XP can only access about 3½gb of it.
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As I recall, XP x64 did exist and functioned but it was seldom seen; 64-bit applications and device drivers were few and 64-bitness offered little advantage for most users at the time.
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Although I often heard otherwise, my IT folks claimed that XP 64-bit worked very well by the time it got to SP3.

(They said this when they upgraded my PC's memory from 2GB to 8GB, more than half of which remain unused, of course.)

WOW64 was one of the greatest things Microsoft has done over the years...
 
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shnitz said:
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To "Widows 10" as one poster spelled it.
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... "poster spelled"?
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Did you not understand his sentence? He stated, "One person posted earlier and will be known heretofore as 'poster,' i.e. someone who posts." He then went on to say, "That person spelled Windows 10 incorrectly."

Or do you take offense with him using "spelled" as a past form of "spell?" It's valid. In fact, it's the preferred form in many parts of the world.
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I was referring to this thread, "Autoplay in Widows 10"

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/56937775
 
The NT executive was the basis for housing multiple OSes. It also worked on multiple hardware platforms. The first version ran on something like a 68000 or RISC processor, and I believe OS2 was the first OS. On initial release, OS2, POSIX, and Windows were supported.
 
Austinian said:
Jestertheclown said:
Sagittarius said:
Robert Zanatta said:
Austinian said:
jcvjcvjcvjcv said:
Patsy Murphy said:
With the antiquated Windows you have you will need lots of third party help, it should be in a museum or on the scrapheap. I mean what can you actually run on XP.

Regards Patsym
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What can't you run on XP?
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How much RAM can you run on XP?
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CAcreeks said:
Austinian said:
CAcreeks said:
If you're still using a 32 bit system )and I don't think XP has ever been successfully produced as a 64 bit system) then it becomes immaterial as XP can only access about 3½gb of it.
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As I recall, XP x64 did exist and functioned but it was seldom seen; 64-bit applications and device drivers were few and 64-bitness offered little advantage for most users at the time.
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Although I often heard otherwise, my IT folks claimed that XP 64-bit worked very well by the time it got to SP3.

(They said this when they upgraded my PC's memory from 2GB to 8GB, more than half of which remain unused, of course.)
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:-)

It's been a while, but I believe that lack of drivers was what stopped me from using XP x64; I don't think I went 64-bit until Windows 7.
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WOW64 was one of the greatest things Microsoft has done over the years...
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Microsoft's ability to maintain backward compatibility in general over the years is nothing less than amazing IMO; I think this graphics utility is the oldest software I own:

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It originally ran under NT 4.0--and it still runs under Windows 10!
 
Robert Zanatta said:
Backwards compatibility is the bane of Microsoft's existence. They put in a lot of money to keep it.
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...and it must drive them crazy that the mobile market couldn't care less about it. Nobody cares about running old apps on a phone, and most of the (IMHO) interesting new apps (like camera remote control, car infotainment integration, health and fitness gadgets, etc.) won't run on Windows.
 
Great point about the mobile market.

Microsoft has a huge install base, especially in the corporate environment where legacy applications take forever to be replaced. They would probably like to be more like Apple in terms of the limitation of application product support.
 
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