RE: [Dev-C++] off topic - windows XP

[Ioannis V. <no...@ho...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev...@li... 
> [mailto:dev...@li...] On Behalf 
> Of Hongli Lai
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 5:09 PM
> To: Daniel Glenfield
> Cc: dev...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] off topic - windows XP
> 
> 
> Daniel Glenfield wrote:
> 
> >
> > Wow I didn't realise there were such big issues about it. 
> You need a 
> > new key each time you upgrade?
> > I thought the memory requirements were because it helped stability! 
> 
> 
> Memory requirements have nothing to do with stability. The huge 
> requirements are caused by all the eyecandy, the fact that an entire 
> browser (Internet Explorer) is integrated in the system (and 
> is loaded 
> all the time), and other bloatness.


In comparison to 9x Win2k/XP memory requirements is due to the pure
32-bit OS code (very genrally, 32-bit code occupies the double space
than 16-bit code and runs at the double speed in a 32-bit processor. In
Itanium for example, the minimum memory requirements to run an 64-bit OS
and some applications is 1 GB!! (from before the Win XP time).


> 
> > Is Windows2000 the best then?
> >
> 
> I think so, apart from the fact that games don't run well on 
> 2000 or XP.


They run great on both.



Ioannis

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