Re: 64-bit transition deadline (Re: Etch in the hands of the Stable Release Managers)
lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) writes:
> Well my farther is going to get a new system for cad soon, which the
> current plan is to have 64bit vista with solidworks 64bit running. But
> it might be another month or two before he is ready for it, so hopefully
> by then any remaining driver issues are worked out. :)
Manufacturers of professional graphics hardware are certainly aware or
their CAD customers and provide win64 drivers. Otherwise you need
network drivers and you are good to go on a CAD workstation.
>
> I think in general the 3d modeling and cad users will very much like
> 64bit windows. Many of the 3d modeling people ran windows xp 64bit
> version in beta for a long time because they couldn't wait for it to be
> done.
Yes. I see questions about win64 every week in the Autodesk Inventor
discussion group. Unfortunately, the answer is always: No, but at
least it will get up to 4 GB of memory. You will get a similar answer
if yo ask about multicores. And the really sad thing is that this is
even true for the upcomming release.
If only software vendors would accept Linux as a platform... Life
would already be much better.
Matthias
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