remixedcat Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 I think we should be able to run windows 3.1 programs in windows 8 becuase then the banks would be able to leap to the 20th centrury. LOL........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ci7 Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 so they would support ARM after all. look like it would take the place of the 32bit(x86) :p i am a bit surprised , how would something like office or windows live run on it ? as they have dependent on x86? not to sound like a n00b, but what the hell is /s ? sarcastic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo158 Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 so they would support ARM after all. look like it would take the place of the 32bit(x86) :p i am a bit surprised , how would something like office or windows live run on it ? as they have dependent on x86? They demonstrated an ARM compiled version of office in the keynote. Basically the software would have to be recompiled for the ARM architecture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BumbleBritches57 Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 i thought it ment sarcastic. the whole recompiling everything that sounds easy and it is easy. but im sure hardly anything software including driver wise woulld be compiled for ARM and honestly windows is WAY to massive for such a thing in the first place Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ci7 Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 but im sure hardly anything software including driver wise woulld be compiled for ARM manufacturers would start with All in one computer + laptops/netbook so i am sure they would , can't see them ship something with missing functionality we are talking about Microsoft and windows so sure enough , support would be there in no time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BumbleBritches57 Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 yeah, support would be there. for computers that USE the default configuration i dont see ATI / NVIDIA support for mainstream gpus in a long time and other off the shelf drivers like printers for a very long time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanx Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 The longer 32-bit flavours of any Windows OS are beating around the bush, the more of an excuse there is for developers not to write native 64-bit applications. As there is currently no 64-bit VB6 compiler, applications that are compiled with it are pegged back straight away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tikimotel Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Just 64-bit, because ... - driver support - ram is cheap Now with all the different versions, won't support (and third-party support) be easier if you just need 64-bit drivers to worry about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PGHammer Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 I think we should be able to run windows 3.1 programs in windows 8 becuase then the banks would be able to leap to the 20th centrury. LOL........ Actually, you can (at least three different ways; four if you have support for hardware virtualization) run not just Windows 3.x applicaitons, but Windows 3.x itself, in 7 x64. 1. Windows Virtual PC. No-cost (free) option for 7 Professional/Enterprise/Ultimate x32/x64. In addition to XPMode, it can run most other operating systems in virtual machines (it is also the only VM software to support OS/2 without requiring hardware virtualization). 2. Oracle VirtualBox. Supports other versions of Windows as a host OS (also supports Linux distributions and Solaris as a host); except for OS/2 (VB requires hardware virtualization support), it has the same guest support as Windows Virtual PC (and, like Windows Virtual PC, it's free). 3. VMware Player and Workstation - the long-time standard in virtualization software. The Player is free (however, Workstation is commercial software). Player can be used to run VMs created by other editions of VMware; Workstation can import virtual hard drives (VHDs) from other VM software (notably Windows Virtual PC or Oracle Virtual Box). Also, like Oracle Virtual Box, OS/2 support requires hardware virtualization.) 4. Parallels Workstation. The Windows version of Mac VM software standard Parallels Desktop, and thus is becoming a fixture in mixed Mac and PC companies. Like VMware Workstation, this is commercial software. Despite a lower price than VMware Workstation, unless your company also has Macs, I would find it difficult to recommend Parallels Workstation instead of VMware Workstation (especially if you have a server version of VMware installed somewhere). There are doubtless other options (notably, bochs) - I just presented the most newbie-friendly four. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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