I believe the core issue is the Personal Computer has still not reached
the state of being a true "appliance". That's where not a shred of
technical expertise is required to use it as a tool. The industry needs
to continue to advance to the level of a toaster or coffee maker. When
it quits working, you throw it away, buy a replacement, turn it on, and
continue from where you left off.
Imagine, 100 years in the future when an episode of "Pickers" comes on
and they find an old IBM XT in its original box in a South Carolina
barn. They'll be jumping up and down when they find a box of ten 5-1/4"
square fiber sleeves with a plastic cookie inside that rotates around
the gaping hole in the center!
73 de Bob - KØRC in MN
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On 12/10/2012 7:51 PM, Jim Rhodes wrote:
I keep hearing that the 64 bit stuff causes problems, but I run both 32 and
64 bit systems (mostly 64) and I have not had a single problem. Of course
my interfaces are all HB so I don't have driver issues with them, but even
the e-mu drivers that every ones says don't work seem to work just fine.
Can't figure out what all the excitement is about.
Jim K0XU Sent from my Xoom tablet
On Dec 10, 2012 5:56 PM, "Jeff Blaine" <keepwalking188@yahoo.com> wrote:
Windows 7 is a good OS, and it's especially good if you pick the x32
version. It's the x64 related driver issues that give guys so much trouble.
73/jeff/ac0c
www.ac0c.com
alpha-charlie-zero-charlie
-----Original Message----- From: Al Kozakiewicz
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 5:53 PM
To: 'Bill Turner' ; RTTY Reflector
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Commercial Interfaces
You didn't specify the exact problem but I suspect the issue is that
you're expecting an operating system that was sunset in 2006 or thereabouts
to have the drivers needed to run on hardware developed in 2012.
Especially on laptops where performance comes at a premium to begin with,
maintaining compatibility with 20 year old hardware protocols is not
assured.
Al
AB2ZY
-----Original Message-----
From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces@**contesting.com<rtty-bounces@contesting.com>]
On Behalf Of Bill Turner
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 3:00 PM
To: RTTY Reflector
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Commercial Interfaces
If you really want simplicity and bullet proof reliability, stick with
Windows XP. Everything works like it should.
The so-called "upgrades" to Win 7 and 8 may be more trouble than they are
worth, unless you like to experiment with things, as I do sometimes.
For day in, day out use, XP is hard to beat. Save your money.
One word of caution however: As I found out with a friend's new laptop
which came with Win7 installed, you may not be able to revert back to XP.
My friend preferred XP and no matter what we tried, the computer would not
allow it to be installed. We even formatted the HD and tried a clean
install. It simply would not do it. The laptop was a Hewlett-Packard.
73, Bill W6WRT
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