Hi Malcolm, Sorry, forgot to give you any supporting info. The URL below has a good article which touches on a lot of memory issues and the sizing advantages of 64-bit Windows: http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/WindowsGeneralWeb/RAMVirtualMemoryPageFileEtc.htm regards, Rick Ulrich Mack Volante Systems On 5/19/05, Rick Mack <ulrich.mack@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Malcolm, > > If the data sets that have to be manipulated are big enough, unless > your application is totally recoded you're probably stuck wih the > large memory requirement. > > However provided you're in a position to run pure terminal services, > ther's nothing stopping you getting an opteron or intel Xeon EM64T > processor-based system, sticking in 16 GB of RAM and loading 64-bit > Windows. Quite a few Xeon systems already ship with the EM64T chip > installed so you might even have one to play with. > > Your existing 32-bit code should run fine, but now you've got some > real memory to play with without the kernel space etc constraints of > 32-bit windows. > > regards, > > Rick > ******************************************************** This Weeks Sponsor: ThinPrint GmbH Now available: The new version .print Engine 6.2 with SSL encryption and certificate management. http://www.thinprint.com ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thin.net/links.cfm ThinWiki community - Excellent SBC Search Capabilities! http://www.thinwiki.com *********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thin.net/citrixlist.cfm