Compatibility of old(ish) Software with Windows 7

[Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain@aeris.net)]

Well, your experience does not generalize for everybody though ... most people do not use old programs that don't work in 64-bit installations of Windows 7.

On a 32-bit Windows OS installation, having more than 4GB is, of course, wasted memory. Since it would never be accessed regardless of need.

For me, the only issues I encountered was finding some drivers for some 10 to 15 year old hardware (like a slide scanner), and in most cases, I have alternatives now.

And, today, most new systems (like laptops) provide or have 64-bit versions available ... and the _standard_ memory available is sometimes 8GB (for powerful laptops, for example) and Windows 64-bit is standard on them as a consequence.

Z

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 12:57 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Compatibility of old(ish) Software with Windows 7

That's a false generalization. The 4MB in my several Windows systems is twice as much as I have ever needed.

On the Mac I'm testing large-footprint server software in multiple VMs, so 8GB is cramped, but if I could swap my Mac for had two real PCs running 32-bit Linux with 4GB each I'd have better performance with fewer compatibility problems at a lower price.

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Matt Sullivan <sullivanmattr at gmail.com> wrote:
> So adding RAM to your system would make your system(s) more 
> usable...thx for clarifying.
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> -Matt
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> On Feb 19, 2014, at 9:00 AM, Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com> wrote:
>
> If you're using only half the RAM you have, as is the case for my 4GB 
> Windows systems, adding more won't speed things up.
>
> If you load more software than will fit in the amount of RAM you have, 
> your system will slow down so much it might as well have crashed. That 
> happened to me at work the other day: I have two VMs running 
> enterprise software, they take up 3GB each, and my Mac has only 8GB.
> If I start a third VM by mistake, the system becomes totally 
> unresponsive.
>
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