Re: LilyPond-2.22.2 does not work on Windows XP

[David Wright]

On Fri 14 Oct 2022 at 10:24:37 (+0100), J Martin Rushton wrote:
> On Fri, 2022-10-14 at 01:51 -0700, Aaron Hill wrote:
> > On 2022-10-14 12:18 am, J Martin Rushton wrote:
> > > For some reason best known to Microsoft Windows held
> > > systems down in 32-bit node for years after they were internally
> > > 64-
> > > bit.
> > 
> > Microsoft did not "hold systems down".  In the era of XP, Windows
> > came 
> > in a 64-bit version, colloquially known as XP64.  The main issue was 
> > that most consumers at that time only had access to 32-bit hardware,
> > so 
> > it was not a priority to market 64-bit support.
> > 
> > Over time, computer manufacturers have made 64-bit hardware the
> > norm; 
> > but as anyone with IT experience knows: clients are rarely eager to 
> > spend money upgrading when things are not completely broken.  (And
> > even 
> > then when the office is on fire, some are still stingy.)  So 
> > notwithstanding the average home user facing rising costs of new 
> > computers, Microsoft has many business, educational, and government 
> > customers that would all have to get aboard the 64-bit train.
> > 
> Perhaps then trying to source XP64 would be a solution for the OP?

Paul's experience might suggest that this could be a case of
out of the frying pan into the fire, and it also doesn't help
with connectivity.

> Maybe it was the supply chain that shipped 32-bit XP on 64-bit machines
> or maybe MS didn't want to push it for some reason?  The fact remains
> that in the XP era there were plenty of 64-bit machines hamstrung by a
> 32-bit OS.

Wasn't this about the time that Microsoft lost focus on their
development of Vista? They seemed to be more intent on tinkering
about with adding morsels of Vista into XP. Eventually they had
to start over with Vista again.

But the main thing was that the money kept pouring in, regardless
of whether they were buying 32-bit or 64, so why bother. Meanwhile
(say, 2005), Linux (Debian/sarge) supported i386, m68k, alpha,
sparc, powerpc, arm, mips (both little- and big-end), ia64, hppa,
and s390, in their first release not to support the 386 processor
(that is as opposed to 486 on up).

Cheers,
David.