No offense taken. You are correct that the Win7 64 bit system I put together is more than I need at this point, but I decided to get as close to the "bleeding edge" as possible to avoid (I hope) another system upgrade for a while. I must say, however, that this system outperforms my expectations (both from the hardware and OS standpoint) and the Flex has worked flawlessly with sub-190 latency, so I am very happy with my choice. This is probably high praise when you consider that I use a Mac and OS X for most of my computing needs and have the PC for the ham radio hobby.
I have also read tonight that the FTDI chips will work with a Prolific PL-2303 64 bit driver that some have reported performs very well. A little while ago I found some references to an iogear converter (GUC23A) with 64 bit drivers that I may try. I hope iogear did not add to the base chipset as you mention. I'll have to do some more reading about that issue. Thanks again for you post. 73, Bill AB4BJ http://www.ab4bj.com Original Message: Why is it everyone is going Win7 x64? I mean, I know the technical reasons that would drive somone to go to the 64 bit OS but it seems highly unlikely that there is such a demand for 4.6+ GB of memory for their pc operation? People are just buying twice the pan for their bucks but nevermind! Bill, sri to be dumping on your email, it wasn't you that was directed at, I have just been thru 3 days of trying to figure out why DXBase works on 50% of win7 x64 systems and am a bit crispy about it! Anyway, I looked at FTDI's website (who makes the chip that drives probably 90+% appears to have their base driver signed and ready for win7 x64. A lot of companies will add to the base driver which turns it into a new driver which likely will not be signed nor necessarily work so caveat emptor but I think the chances of getting a USB->Serial adapter are not that bad! _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
