32-bit PCI, 64-bit driver???

[Man-wai Chang]

Should I think this way?

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[Rick Rogers]

What would you hope to gain from it

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[Man-wai Chang]

What would you hope to gain from it

Just curious about this phenomena... the world hasn't obsolete the
32-bit PCI, right?

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[Rick Rogers]

Not that I'm aware of, but things do progress. Otherwise, we'd still all be
running computers on 8-bit hardware with CLI, and counting ram in Kbytes.

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[Kerry Brown]

You seem to be very critical of Vista but don't offer an alternative. Can
you enlighten us how other OS' solve this 32/64 bit conundrum? I see you use
Linux. How does it deal with his?

 

[Theo]

No, you should not think this way at all. There is not a
direct correlation between 32-bit PCI and 64-bit drivers.
The 32-bit PCI is a hardware capability/configuration and a
64-bit driver is for a 64-bit operating system. A 32-bit
PCI card can operate in any OS; 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit,
64-bit, or even 128-bit; with the appropriate drivers for
the OS.