[D-community-offtopic] Maximum RAM

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 2013-12-12 at 19:42 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> I wrote:
> > Why do so many people, with 64-bit architecture prefer 32-bit
> > operating systems?
> > 
> > 
> Perhaps because 64-bit gives their use case brings disadvantage but no
> advantages? Perhaps for other reasons. To assume that you *should* use
> 64-bit in all cases is incorrect.

Rumours about disadvantages or are there real drawbacks for some use
cases?

The Windows crew? I love Linux, but want to run Windows VSTs and
something like this?

I've got doubts that there are valid reasons to prefer 32-bit over
64-bit in 2013/2014, assumed the hardware does allow 64-bit.

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