I had the same thought and regretted it. If you have a complex setup, these
issues will drive you nuts. The fact is, the 4g limit for a shack pc is a
complete waste. Yea, you have it available, but there are no combo of ham
applications that would command (or even take advantage of the option) to
use up that much space.
73/jeff/ac0c
www.ac0c.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Rhodes
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 9:43 PM
To: Jeff Blaine
Cc: Al Kozakiewicz ; Bill Turner ; RTTY Contesting
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Commercial Interfaces
I just did not want to get stuck with the 4 gig memory limit on a modern
machine. Yes I can boot to XP if I want or Ubuntu linux if I desire. But I
don't very often. If it was just a shack computer maybe OK, but why buy the
power to choke it off with the memory limit.
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Jeff Blaine
<keepwalking188@yahoo.com>wrote:
Jim,
The trouble (in my case) lies with the sound cards. In the XP x32, you
could point as many devices onto a given audio feed as you wanted. But in
x64 Win 7, it’s one device per source. Also, I never could get my Quartet
to work in Win 7 x64, even though I could dual-boot back into xp and it
worked fine (meaning the hardware was exactly the same, only the OS and
related changed). So I would say that some guys will not have trouble –
and others will. However, for all things constant, the x32 will have less
compatibility issues than the x64 version of Win 7. And for guys who don’t
want to stay with XP for whatever reason, I suggest to them to follow the
x32 win7 path if it’s a dedicated shack machine. There just is no benefit
to the x64 OS compared to the x32 for just about all hams.
73/jeff/ac0c
www.ac0c.com
alpha-charlie-zero-charlie
*From:* Jim Rhodes <jimk0xu@gmail.com>
*Sent:* Monday, December 10, 2012 7:51 PM
*To:* Jeff Blaine <keepwalking188@yahoo.com>
*Cc:* RTTY Contesting <rtty@contesting.com> ; Bill
Turner<dezrat1242@yahoo.com>; Al
Kozakiewicz <akozak@hourglass.com>
*Subject:* Re: [RTTY] Commercial Interfaces
I keep hearing that the 64 bit stuff causes problems, but I run both 32
and 64 bit systems (mostly 64) and I have not had a single problem. Of
course my interfaces are all HB so I don't have driver issues with them,
but even the e-mu drivers that every ones says don't work seem to work
just
fine. Can't figure out what all the excitement is about.
Jim K0XU Sent from my Xoom tablet
On Dec 10, 2012 5:56 PM, "Jeff Blaine" <keepwalking188@yahoo.com> wrote:
Windows 7 is a good OS, and it's especially good if you pick the x32
version. It's the x64 related driver issues that give guys so much
trouble.
73/jeff/ac0c
www.ac0c.com
alpha-charlie-zero-charlie
-----Original Message----- From: Al Kozakiewicz
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 5:53 PM
To: 'Bill Turner' ; RTTY Reflector
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Commercial Interfaces
You didn't specify the exact problem but I suspect the issue is that
you're expecting an operating system that was sunset in 2006 or
thereabouts
to have the drivers needed to run on hardware developed in 2012.
Especially on laptops where performance comes at a premium to begin with,
maintaining compatibility with 20 year old hardware protocols is not
assured.
Al
AB2ZY
-----Original Message-----
From: RTTY
[mailto:rtty-bounces@**contesting.com<rtty-bounces@contesting.com>]
On Behalf Of Bill Turner
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 3:00 PM
To: RTTY Reflector
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Commercial Interfaces
If you really want simplicity and bullet proof reliability, stick with
Windows XP. Everything works like it should.
The so-called "upgrades" to Win 7 and 8 may be more trouble than they are
worth, unless you like to experiment with things, as I do sometimes.
For day in, day out use, XP is hard to beat. Save your money.
One word of caution however: As I found out with a friend's new laptop
which came with Win7 installed, you may not be able to revert back to XP.
My friend preferred XP and no matter what we tried, the computer would
not
allow it to be installed. We even formatted the HD and tried a clean
install. It simply would not do it. The laptop was a Hewlett-Packard.
73, Bill W6WRT
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