From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 28 16:02:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24FBE16A4CE for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:02:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C851343D1D for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:02:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rob2@pythonemproject.com) Received: from [192.168.1.102] (c-67-169-203-186.client.comcast.net[67.169.203.186]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with ESMTP id <20040928160225014007t6lee> (Authid: europax); Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:02:25 +0000 Message-ID: <41598B94.9030703@pythonemproject.com> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:04:36 -0700 From: Rob User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040816 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: amd-list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: my first memorable AMD-64 moment, YMMV X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:02:26 -0000 Haven't been able to install FreeBSD yet as my SCSI cable connectors have lots of bent pins. So just for kicks last night I tried to install some 32 bit Windows applications on XP-64. Absolutely none would install. It appears that anything that requires a driver is uninstallable. Someone perhaps has a good expanation for this. I'm going to try Python later. It has always installed on anything. But my recommendation to Bill Gates is this: make your first port to 64 bits Solataire. Rob.