But i and everyone I know has not had any of the dramas you describe with windows 7 x64.
Are you talking from experiences or a generic rant? From: Neal Campbell [mailto:nealk...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 1:35 PM To: Anthony Martin Cc: Bill Jourdain; FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] USB to Serial Converter Question I completely understand it and the only real benefit our colleagues will see is that some of their programs and drivers won't work, especially because: 1. All drivers on a 64 bit system have to be signed 2; Normal 32 bit programs get the luxury of running in the WoW 32 emulator 3. Upgrading to a new MS OS is painful enough as it is, adding this is like having surgery without anesthesia and doing the cutting yourself! Oh, and given the appropriate memory, programs tested run approximately 5% faster when they can operate. Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.dxbase.com www.abrohamnealsoftware.com www.sdrsystems.com (540) 242 0911 Amateur Radio: K3NC Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ DXBase bug reports: email to ca...@dxbase.fogbugz.com Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ DX Cluster: dxc.k3nc.com port 23 On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Anthony Martin <anth...@consultexcel.com.au> wrote: Umm do you understand the difference between 32bit and 64 bit? There are more differences than just the ability for more RAM... http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/windowsxp/articles/581/1/The-difference <http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/windowsxp/articles/581/1/The-differenc e%0A-between-64-and-32-bit-processors> -between-64-and-32-bit-processors Its like -----Original Message----- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Neal Campbell Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 1:07 PM To: Bill Jourdain Cc: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz Subject: Re: [Flexradio] USB to Serial Converter Question 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! Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.dxbase.com www.abrohamnealsoftware.com www.sdrsystems.com (540) 242 0911 Amateur Radio: K3NC Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ DXBase bug reports: email to ca...@dxbase.fogbugz.com Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ DX Cluster: dxc.k3nc.com port 23 On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Bill Jourdain <ab...@ab4bj.com> wrote: > Thanks. This looks like a great device. Unfortunately, it appears that it > is not compatible with a 64 bit Vista or Win7 system as it does not have a > 64 bit driver available. > > 73, > > Bill > AB4BJ > http://www.ab4bj.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim [mailto:pywac...@fuse.net] > Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 8:38 PM > To: Bill Jourdain > Subject: Re: [Flexradio] USB to Serial Converter Question > > Bill, the drivers are not signed but the keyspan 4 port USB adapter > has worked with no issues under both xp & vista. I think the model > number is 49wg. > > 73 de ke4wy jim > > Sent from my iPod > > On Nov 3, 2009, at 8:19 PM, "Bill Jourdain" <ab...@ab4bj.com> wrote: > > > Anyone here had any luck with any USB to Serial converters that will > > run > > (i.e., have a signed driver) under Win7 64 bit? I would like to > > connect my > > LP-100A through DDUtil, but my only available com port is taken up > > by my > > SteppIR controller. > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > 73, > > > > > > > > Bill > > > > AB4BJ > > > > http://www.ab4bj.com > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 pywac...@fuse.net > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 nealk...@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ 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 anth...@consultexcel.com.au _______________________________________________ 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
