Thoughts from Mirality

For those who don’t already know, my main desktop machine at the moment is running 64-bit Windows. There probably isn’t a particularly good reason for doing that — after all, I’ve only got 2GB of RAM in there at the moment, so I’m not even hitting the 3GB limit of 32-bit Windows yet. But when I bought my shiny new 64-bit processor I figured, why the heck not? And it has the added bonus of being able to make sure my own software works on a 64-bit platform, too. Of course, I could just be masochistic.

Having said that, for the most part I haven’t had any problems with native applications (there have been a few issues, but I don’t want to go into that now. Maybe I’ll save it for a later Rant post). Even games (and their evil DRM disc-detection software) run just fine.

Where I have hit some issues though is with .NET applications. “Wait!” I hear you say, “Aren’t .NET apps supposed to be platform-independent?” Well, they are (in a way), and it’s partly that which is their downfall
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