[RTTY] Commercial Interfaces

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

> Yea, you have it available, but there are no combo of ham
> applications that would command (or even take advantage of the
> option) to use up that much space.

Many logging applications can make use of > 4GB RAM by keeping
large database indexes in memory and significantly reducing memory
swapping.

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV


On 12/10/2012 10:47 PM, Jeff Blaine wrote:
> I had the same thought and regretted it.  If you have a complex setup,
> these issues will drive you nuts.  The fact is, the 4g limit for a shack
> pc is a complete waste.  Yea, you have it available, but there are no
> combo of ham applications that would command (or even take advantage of
> the option) to use up that much space.
>
> 73/jeff/ac0c
> www.ac0c.com
> alpha-charlie-zero-charlie
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Jim Rhodes
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 9:43 PM
> To: Jeff Blaine
> Cc: Al Kozakiewicz ; Bill Turner ; RTTY Contesting
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] Commercial Interfaces
>
> I just did not want to get stuck with the 4 gig memory limit on a modern
> machine. Yes I can boot to XP if I want or Ubuntu linux if I desire. But I
> don't very often. If it was just a shack computer maybe OK, but why buy the
> power to choke it off with the memory limit.
>
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Jeff Blaine
> <keepwalking188 at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>>   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.
>>
>> 73/jeff/ac0c
>> www.ac0c.com
>> alpha-charlie-zero-charlie
>>
>>
>>  *From:* Jim Rhodes <jimk0xu at gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* Monday, December 10, 2012 7:51 PM
>> *To:* Jeff Blaine <keepwalking188 at yahoo.com>
>> *Cc:* RTTY Contesting <rtty at contesting.com> ; Bill
>> Turner<dezrat1242 at yahoo.com>; Al
>> Kozakiewicz <akozak at hourglass.com>
>> *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@**contesting.com<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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