Re: Oracle 10g on W2k3 - 32 bit or 64 bit?

Sybrand Bakker wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 13:44:55 +0200, "Matthias Hoys" <anti_at_spam.com>
> wrote:
>

>> "Anna C. Dent" <nanae_troll_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message 
>> news:Xns9815D7363D43Eanacedenthotmailcom_at_70.169.32.36...
>>> Walt <walt_askier_at_SHOESyahoo.com> wrote in
>>> news:12d7erhkkhnk463_at_corp.supernews.com:
>>>
>>>> I'm looking at speccing out new server hardware.  We want to move to
>>>> 10.2.
>>>>
>>>> Any reason not to use the 64 bit OS instead of the 32 bit version?
>>> If the CPU is a 32-bit processor, you'll be challenged to get a 64-bit OS
>>> running on it
>>>
>> Most modern server hardware (CPU, PCI cards) is 64-bit, AFAIK. It's the OS 
>> that's always lacking behind, especially in the Windows world.
>>


> 32-bit OS: VMS, 1979

>                   Windows, 1995

Yeah but but but that's not a real operating system.

A real operating system has a GUI, and Internet Exploiter, and Outlook Excess, and and and games and other real kooool stuff.

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