Any thoughts on whether to go 64 bit (yet)?

[inkista]

Yeah, for me, the move to Snow Leopard was relatively painless and the regained 50GB of hard drive space was quite welcome (although my MySQL sockets got screwed with. Again. And, of course, I lost PTMac and had to switch to PTGui.)

Lightroom 4 is going to be 64-bit only.

Still not convinced, however, that I need Lion.

[FrankMi]

Hi colin, It looks like the question has been answered, but I thought you might be interested in knowing that Steve Gibson of GRC.com and the Security Now! podcast still programs his apps in assembly language. He is the inspiration for my looking at learning programming at all.

-Sonic

Many years ago when I was a hardware technician for mainframe computer support I had to be able to write machine language maintenance routines directly into the computer's maintenance panel from memory using binary switches. I still remember that an unconditional branch instruction was 0100 0111 1111 0000!

[Colin Southern]

Hi colin, It looks like the question has been answered, but I thought you might be interested in knowing that Steve Gibson of GRC.com and the Security Now! podcast still programs his apps in assembly language. He is the inspiration for my looking at learning programming at all.

-Sonic

Hi Will,

I've admired Steve for many years -- very smart cookie. I really enjoyed assembly language -- just wish I had the time these days

[Colin Southern]

Many years ago when I was a hardware technician for mainframe computer support I had to be able to write machine language maintenance routines directly into the computer's maintenance panel from memory using binary switches. I still remember that an unconditional branch instruction was 0100 0111 1111 0000!

Used to do the same - think the gear at the time was an Informix (???) data capture system - magnetic core memory - and even an unsealed hard disk -- gawd, those were the days!

[grm1209]

I went 64-bit in 1984 when I joined the systems programming staff at Cray Research