[AccessD] 32 bit or 64 bit Access2010 (An OT reply)

Drew Wutka DWUTKA at Marlow.com
Mon Apr 19 14:30:14 CDT 2010


I'm currently in a little struggle at work over 64 bit.  I guess people
don't realize that when we went from 16 bit, to 32 bit, there was a
major shift in paradigms when it came to computing.  Several years
before Windows 95, most computers being sold were 32 bit processors,
even though most apps were 16 bit.  Windows 95 really brought the 32 bit
world to the average user.  Even though Windows 95 helped make 32bit the
standard, it was over ten years after the first 32 bit processor came
out (1984).  It's now 2010, which is 19 years after the first 64 bit
processor (1991).  Intel didn't come out with it's first 64 bit
processor until 2001 though, so we're looking at the same 10 year(ish)
gap between the processor being available, and the standardization of
it's use.

There are several factors that are going to push the world into 64 bit
OSes.  #1, memory.  4 gig is the absolute max of a 32 bit system.  How
many people reading this email either have or want 4 gigs or more?  In a
32 bit OS, you are using 4 gigs for your entire system, so if you have 4
gigs in RAM on your motherboard, you are actually utilizing less than
that, since the video ram needs memory addressing too.  (So a 4 gig
system, with a 512 meg video card only gets to use 3.5 gigs of it's
RAM).  #2, Microsoft.  They are putting out 64 bit versions of Windows 7
on new computers without making a big deal of it.  To the average home
user getting a new computer (especially for the first time), they aren't
going to notice whether their system is 32 bit or 64 bit.  This is being
done for reason #1.  Buy a new computer with 3 gigs of memory.  Well if
you want to double that in a year or two, you'd have to reinstall a 64
bit OS (can't 'upgrade' from 32 bit to 64 bit).  Reason #3, games!  Like
it or not, it's not business applications which push the computer field.
;)  It's games and porn!  And gaming systems have been 64 bit for quite
some time.  The spill over to PC games is pushing everything to 64 bit.

So get on the bandwagon before it's too late!

Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart
McLachlan
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 6:34 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] 32 bit or 64 bit Access2010

It's just going to get more and more complicated to support users with
different versions :-(

http://www.opengatesw.net/ms-access-tutorials/Access-2010/Microsoft-Acce
ss-2010-64-Bit.htm

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Stuart
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