64bit Question

[garrya100]

I may have confused you with my definenitions. Both S2008 servers are indeed from the same code base, otherwise there would be too many problems with being able to use the same drivers and programs etc. But S2008R2 is not a 'bug fix' as is Win 7. The code has been extended and recompiled.

 

Much the same as Win2K and XP are the same code base, but the're not the same OS.

 

S2003R and S2003R2 are actually the same OS with a major service pack being the diference.

S2008R2 is not S2008 with a major service pack, but a recompile of the OS. If you like, S2003R2 is a .001 revision while S2008R2 is a .1 revision.

[synaesthesia]

This has been a bugbear of mine for years. The 32bit>64bit transition should have happened years ago, and is no better than the Millennium Bug or the 640k memory thing.

"We'll never live past/use these computers past 1999"

"We'll never need more than 640k ram" (myth quote but good example)

"We'll never need to address more than 4,294,967,295 bits"

 

So, why are we still in a 32bit majority? Bad planning, lack of foresight, very very lazy software engineers (Logitech, Creative Labs - talking to you, ladies - plenty of people in the educational land in the same boat). It's not exactly a hugely difficult move to make.

I won't let anyone buy a PC or laptop with under 3GB of ram. 4GB is "standard" as far as I'm concerned, and in a desktop that's likely to be bumped up to nearer 5GB of required addressable space when you add cache and dedicated GPU memory. I don't like people being ripped off either - if you're going to buy anything with 4GB of ram, both they and I would expect to be able to use it.

 

I was annoyed that Windows XP was released without an x64 version (that was much later, and mucho terrible). Was there a 2000 server x64? Assuming so, can't remember. But as I said, this is something that should've been solved and sorted at least 10 years ago. They were just as aware of Moores Law back then for processing speed - I don't think anyone would envisage running multiple core/thread/GHz processors on 256mb of memory. Laziness and cost cutting.

[Michael]

Was there a 2000 server x64?

 

There were four versions of Windows 2000 -

 

Professional, Server, Advanced Server and Datacenter. Microsoft did however release Advanced Server and Datacenter Limited editions to run on 64bit Itanium.

 

It was only until Windows Server 2003 that 64bit was available for x64 and Itanium.