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Re: ADT Pro With Windows 7 (64-Bit)
In article <uK4Zl.587$cx5.262@newsfe01.iad>,
"Albert D. Kallal" <PleaseNOOOsPAMmkallal@msn.com> wrote:
> "larwe" <zwsdotcom@gmail.com> wrote in message
> 277c32ea-3daa-43b0-a08e-4e44f2c50b98@r33g2000yqn.googlegroups.com">news:277c32ea-3daa-43b0-a08e-4e44f2c50b98@r33g2000yqn.googlegroups.com...
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> > Anyone who is using a niche/minority platform is an early adopter,
>
> Says who?
>
> A niche platform does not make one a early adopter. We can consider
> that using an apple II makes you a niche user today, but to state
> that means you are an early adopter is not the same thing at all here.
>
> > [misquoting repaired] regardless of how long the platform has been
> > available. Sure, 64-bit OSes and even 64-bit Windows versions have
> > been available for a long time, but precious few people are using
> > them for general computing.
>
> Fine and in 1991 precious few people were using 32 bit computers.
Indeed, both my computer and I were fine and precious in 1991, when I
was still using my 1987-vintage 68020 system. Of course, by 1991 I had
added a 68882 FPU, 68851 MPU and 32-bit OS. Surely, I was an early
adopter of a minority platform.
[...]
> > Heck, few PC applications today even really take advantage of
> > multicores - it just so happens that synergistically, having
> > multiple cores allows separate processes to use the machine more
> > efficiently.
This is precisely what made me an early adopter of multi-core
technology, ca. 2002. Even with no special software except the OS's
thread scheduler, the front-most application's event handling remained
responsive during compiles, updates, etc. Of course, the OS designers
have always found ways to use up my spare cycles; now they're using up
my spare cores!
> > There's no such happy accident with a 64-bit OS, and no reason to
> > upgrade unless you have a program that needs to random-access huge
> > datasets.
I agree.
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