Contents tagged with Winx64
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Win64 for x64? Wait till 2005
First Whidbey Beta 1 doesn't work with the build available on MSDN. According to the newsgroups, it only works on this magical mystical build 1184 that only official testers have.
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Async commands work with 64 bits
I just did some async stuff in Whidbey to a Sql2k Server running on a remote machine. The remote server is running Win2k with Sql2k (both 32 bit) on it. It works! Yippee!
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Browsers
IE for x64 and IE for 32-bit x86 are definitely different browsers. I figured that there would be some level of integration between the two, but they appear to be pretty much independent of each other. IE for 32-bit x86 seems to be included so that all of those plug-ins and add-ons that are for IE will work.
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Windows for x64 really does run existing applications
I have run the May CTP Whidbey Visual Studio.NET, Mozilla 1.7, OpenOffice, MSN Messenger, and WinZip. What a cool feeling this is. Why am I not running MS Office? Well, I just don't want to go thru the registration hassles. There is a 32 bit of IE that runs along side the 64 bit version of IE. All of this seems to run just fine within the Windows on Windows 64 bit (WOW64) layer.
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64 bit May CTP bits
I just got done installing the 64 bit May CTP bits. VS.NET Whidbey seems to run just fine under the WOW layer. I did a test connection thru to a Sql2k database on another system. The named pipes provider did not run, but TCP/IP ran just fine to the other database. I have to go do some real work now, but I promise that I will post some more stuff regarding how well things work as I get into this. I'm really excited about this. Now, where is Yukon for x64?!?
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Win64 is up and running
After a fight that started this morning and went off and on all day, I can finally say with a smile that my AMD64 bit system is up and running. Here is a list of the trials and tribulations that I had to overcome to get things to work.
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AMD64 system
I have finally gotten back to Knoxville with my AMD64 system. I will be installing Win64 for Extended Systems on it on Thursday. This may be harder than I thought initially given the lack of device drivers for the platform, but shall see tomorrow. The device that I am worried the most about is the Serial ATA hard drive. If I can get that problem solved, then the next problem is going to be Whidbey for x64 systems.