Once upon a midnight dreary, while nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx pondered weak
and weary over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore...:
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> Mark Kent wrote:
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>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> > Microsoft cuts ANOTHER feature:
>> > full HD playback in 32bit Vista goes
>> >
>> > ,----[ Quote ]
>> >| By far the majority of PCs use 32-bit processors, because despite
>> >| AMD's efforts to push 64-bit CPUs into the marketplace early, Intel's
>> >| first widely-promoted 64-bit CPU is the just-released Core 2 Duo.
>> > `----
>> >
>> >
http://www.apcstart.com/site/dwarne/2006/08/1139/microsoft-cuts-another-feature-full-hd-playback-in-32bit-vista
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>> And there will be no "unsigned" drivers allowed to run in 64-bit vista.
>> None. That means no support for /anything/ Microsoft doesn't want you,
>> the customer, to have. No linux filesystems... Presumably, there'll be
>> no designing, building and using your own peripherals, either. Unless
>> I've read this wrongly, of course, but I don't think that I have.
>
> Can you explain what you mean by no linux filesystems? There's no
> support for linux file systems in Windows right now, is there? Vista
> can't prevent you from accessing the Vista file systems from a Linux
> partition, can it? That is, assuming the file systems are the same
> ones Windows uses now (NTFS, FAT etc), not NFS, which is another
> matter.
I installed e2IFS for someone the other day, as it happens: this lends
read/write support for NT to access Linux ext2 partitions. Unfortunately,
this has the side effect of adding a permanent drive letter to the mix of
virtual CD drives, compressed volumes, etc. Oh yeah, and it also doubles up
when you plug in a FAT32 external - then you take potluck on which letter
represents the actual volume. Get the wrong one and the whole thing falls
down and you have to connect-cycle the external and try again.
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