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0 pointsdeepspace2y ago0 comments

I ran that rare beast, Windows XP64. It was basically Server2003 x64 with the XP UI.

Driver compatibility was terrible, as you might expect, but it could support a vast amount of memory (relative to XP). I used the base O/S only to run VMware Workstation, and then ran small instances of XP, each dedicated to a task like audio, video, etc, on top of that. Along with FreeBSD and various flavors of Linux.

That was my daily driver until late 2010. Solid as a rock.

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EvanAnderson2y ago

XP64 was an odd animal.

I had a Customer who usd it to run Unigraphics CAD. The Dell Precision machines they had with factory-loaded XP64 were fine. Trying to get their random other machines to run it w/ working audio, video, and chipset drivers was a pain.

I never ran it as a desktop OS myself. I installed plenty of the server version it was based on (W2K3 x64) but those boxes always had standard VGA drivers, no audio, and sometimes a RAID controller driver, but that was usually it.

bonton892y ago

I adopted XP64 kind of late IIRC (after Vista introduction) so the driver situation seemed fine to me. I had a cheap USB 56K modem I had to replace but otherwise all my hardware worked.

sillywalk2y ago

Was that XP for x86-64 or XP for Itanium? I'd imagine both were pretty rare.

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