Danny, Danny Mayer wrote: > David J Taylor wrote: >> The version I'm testing is the 32-bit version of Vista, albeit on a >> 64-bit >> capable CPU. 64-bit can be a pain though for subtle errors, I >> appreciate. >> > > That's a problem. There are even more subtle issues when you run a > 32-bit O/S on a 64-bit system. I don't think we can even try to support > that since there are likely to be too many unknowns. It's a very nasty > mix.
I don't think there's a basic problem if you run a 32 bit OS on a 64 bit hardware. AFAIK the AMD64 platform is backward compatible with 32 bit OSs. W2k is running fine on a AMD64 machine here, and there are absolutely no problems. In one of his earlier posts David mentioned that there were no problems when he was running WXP on that machine. I would rather expect some possible problems if you run a 64 bit OS (WXP x64 or Vista x64) on a 64 bit hardware, and then run a 32 bit application under that 64 bit OS, if the 32 bit compatibility layer of the OS has not been implemented properly. >> I didn't think that a 64-bit version of NTP was included in the Meinberg >> distribution. I don't think it would make much sense (or would be even possible) to run a program compiled for a 64 bit target OS on a 32 bit OS, just because the hardware is 64 bit. Martin -- Martin Burnicki Meinberg Funkuhren Bad Pyrmont Germany _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions