Lack of 32-bit driver support is THE major problem with running a 64-bit Windows system, and it's the reason I don't run my "personal" systems at home in 64-bit mode. The situation is much better than it was -- thanks to Microsoft's requirement that any driver that's Logo'ed for Vista or Win7 have both 32-bit and 64-bit variants. But it's still a problem for a variety of devices, especially older devices and devices created by small vendors.
<rant> What's so very annoying about this is that: (a) making your drivers support 64-bit Windows is not either difficult or time consuming (except for a VERY small subset of drivers that use x87 floating point instructions in kernel mode), and (b) the OEMs/IHVs have had MORE THAN SIX YEARS to work on 64-bit drivers for their devices. Any vendor that doesn't have 64-bit drivers doesn't have them because they don't want to. Many vendors are using the 64-bit requirement as an excuse to not support older devices, thereby reducing software support costs. I suspect you'll see Windows desktop OSes in the near future be 64-bit only. Windows Server already dropped support for 32-bit (as of WS2008R2). Might as well get ready... </rant> Peter K1PGV _______________________________________________ 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
