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Re: Advantages of 64-bit vs 32-bit on old hardware



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Hello,

On Mar 12, 2008, at 10:23, Dave McGuire wrote:

Well being "very PC like" was really my point. The flimsy commodity chassis bugs me, and the fact that it's practically useless with the supplied disk interface is very un-Sun-like.

Yeah, the case is annoying and the IDE chip - couldn't they have used a halfway decent one? On the other hand, I had a SymBIOS 53c875 and a bunch of UW-SCSI disks sitting around so my U10's IDE ports were never hooked up to anything else than a CD burner. At least not while I had it ;) And for the U60 - I want a burner, now I need an IDE interface since SCSI burners pretty much vanished from the market years ago. On second thought that's not much of a problem, I already have a USB 2.0 card in there and USB-to-IDE frobs are probably cheaper than IDE cards.

About 64bit code - even with only 2GB RAM you might want more virtual address space for at least a few processes. Otherwise v8plus seems to be the way to go in most cases.

have fun
Michael
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