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nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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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
>> >
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>> >| 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?
There's 3rd party support for ext2/3, see www.fs-driver.org. There was
even some kind of ext2 support for DOS, afairc.
> Vista
> can't prevent you from accessing the Vista file systems from a Linux
> partition, can it?
No, but then that wasn't really what I was driving at.
> That is, assuming the file systems are the same
> ones Windows uses now (NTFS, FAT etc), not NFS, which is another
> matter.
>
True.
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