On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:00:18 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:43:05 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> "Valued customers" bug Neat Receipts over Vista support
>>
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>>| There, people wonder why it's just so difficult for firms to develop 64-bit
>>| drivers. Microsoft might be a better company to ask - but we suspect it's a
>>| huge sea change and we are just the flots and the jets being carried along on
>>| the top of an irresistible wave.
>> `----
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>> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42548
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>> Even some Microsoft products do not support 64-bit PCs. Of course, open source
>> drivers don't have this issue.
>I think the issue here is that, for a variety of reasons, Linux drivers are
>typically written in C, and not optimized to the Nth degree for performance
>like their Windows counterparts are.
Windows isn't optimized for anything.
Their primary problem with 64 bit machines is that they don't have a second
semester CS student in the house who can write a decent compiler. Their
64 bit code is bloated garbage. Only microsoft could fail from
yielding any performance improvement at all when using a 64bit machine.
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