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I went to fire up Windows 2000 in a VM this past week. I had completely forgotten it was the last 32-bit version. If it were 64-bit, I expect there would be m

by gjvc 5y ago

I went to fire up Windows 2000 in a VM this past week. I had completely forgotten it was the last 32-bit version. If it were 64-bit, I expect there would be many still in service today.

terinjokes 5y ago
While there was a 64-bit edition of Windows XP (actually two: one for Itanium and one for AMD64), it was not very popular or well supported by drivers.
- genewitch 5y ago
  It eventually did get nearly full driver support, the last pain point i had on WinXP x64 edition was ASIO4ALL, for years the author said, paraphrased, "I will never support 64 bit OS" - although it works fine on win7 x64 and up. The drivers that never worked correctly were industrial and "weird" things like radio programmers, stereoscopic headsets, and limited run PCI[e] cards and specialized USB peripherals, but most of those had issues with XP 32-bit as well, and never worked past XP, in general.
Lammy 5y ago
Windows 10 is the last 32-bit version https://www.engadget.com/windows-10-32-bit-oem-173055990.html https://www.engadget.com/windows-10-32-bit-oem-173055990.htm...
- gjvc 5y ago
  oh. where can I get a 64 bit windows 2000?
  - Lammy 5y ago
    There isn't one for AMD64/"x64", only for Itanium and DEC Alpha, and the Alpha version was never truly released so there's only an RC2 build for that platform. https://web.archive.org/web/20100718055750/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CGN/is_1999_August_26/ai_55572391/ https://web.archive.org/web/20100718055750/http://findarticl...
    - gjvc 5y ago
      an alpha build of Windows 2000 would be more use to me than a 32-bit build of Windows 10, and I don't have an alpha