[RTTY] Commercial Interfaces

[Jeff Blaine]

Jim,

The trouble (in my case) lies with the sound cards.  In the XP x32, you could point as many devices onto a given audio feed as you wanted.  But in x64 Win 7, it’s one device per source.  Also, I never could get my Quartet to work in Win 7 x64, even though I could dual-boot back into xp and it worked fine (meaning the hardware was exactly the same, only the OS and related changed).  So I would say that some guys will not have trouble – and others will.  However, for all things constant, the x32 will have less compatibility issues than the x64 version of Win 7.  And for guys who don’t want to stay with XP for whatever reason, I suggest to them to follow the x32 win7 path if it’s a dedicated shack machine.  There just is no benefit to the x64 OS compared to the x32 for just about all hams.

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From: Jim Rhodes 
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 7:51 PM
To: Jeff Blaine 
Cc: RTTY Contesting ; Bill Turner ; Al Kozakiewicz 
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Commercial Interfaces

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 at 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 at 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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