Subj : Re: Micro Computer
To   : IB Joe
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Wed Jan 25 2023 06:59 am

-=> IB Joe wrote to All <=-

 IJ> I don't work in the Tech industry, my expertise lays outside of there.
 IJ> I bought a micro computer the other day to host the BBS on it and for
 IJ> the life of me I could NOT install a 32Bit version of windows 10 on
 IJ> it... There was 4 failed attempts.  I went with the 64Bit version and
 IJ> installed the hack DLL file that will let me run 16Bit doors.

I've never heard of issues with 32-bit OSes on modern hardware. I'm
running Windows 10/32 bit on my BBS, but I was running it on a 32-bit
CPU, and now in a virtual machine.

 IJ> Is there something I don't know about todays hardware that it would
 IJ> reject a 32Bit OS??

The only issues I've read about are on 64-bit systems with over 4GB of
RAM installed.


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