Windows 7 speedup

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kgburcham
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Windows 7 speedup

Post by kgburcham »

Seems maybe a speedup for chess programs, probably small.


Under the hood, Microsoft said it improved the speed of the system and cut the amount of memory it needs to run.
Windows 7 will ship in both client and server versions with the client versions available in both 32-bit and 64-bit editions.
Simply put, this is the seventh release of Windows, so therefore Windows 7 just makes sense.
A beta release is planned for early 2009.

Windows 7 Microsoft is intending to increase performance on systems with multiple cores. Currently software often cannot take full advantage of multiple cores due to the way in which the software is written and executed. The program will fail if it is not synchronised across all cores, this is why greater parallelism is required.
There will be a noticeable increase in system performance if the load created by executing programs is shared across multiple cores where available.

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Re: Windows 7 speedup

Post by mathmoi »

kgburcham wrote:Simply put, this is the seventh release of Windows, so therefore Windows 7 just makes sense.
A beta release is planned for early 2009.
Is it really the seventh realease of windows ?

1: windows 1.0
2: Windows 2.0
3: Windows 3.0
4: Windows 95
5: Windows 98
6: Windows Millenium
7: Windows XP
8: Windows Vista
9: Windows 7
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Re: Windows 7 speedup

Post by Dann Corbit »

mathmoi wrote:
kgburcham wrote:Simply put, this is the seventh release of Windows, so therefore Windows 7 just makes sense.
A beta release is planned for early 2009.
Is it really the seventh realease of windows ?

1: windows 1.0
2: Windows 2.0
3: Windows 3.0
4: Windows 95
5: Windows 98
6: Windows Millenium
7: Windows XP
8: Windows Vista
9: Windows 7
I count a few more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mi ... s_versions

Windows ME was the worst one of all.
It has to rank right up there with Microsoft Bob.
IMO-YMMV
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Re: Windows 7 speedup

Post by mathmoi »

Well, I did not count the NT version priors to Windows XP and the minors release like Windows 3.1.

But you get my point Windows 7 is not the seventh release of Windows.
plattyaj

Re: Windows 7 speedup

Post by plattyaj »

mathmoi wrote:
kgburcham wrote:Simply put, this is the seventh release of Windows, so therefore Windows 7 just makes sense.
A beta release is planned for early 2009.
Is it really the seventh realease of windows ?

1: windows 1.0
2: Windows 2.0
3: Windows 3.0
4: Windows 95
5: Windows 98
6: Windows Millenium
7: Windows XP
8: Windows Vista
9: Windows 7
Windows 7 is just the new marketing name. Each version of Windows had some internal version number. Windows 95-Millenium were 4.x, XP is 5.x, Vista is 6.x.

Rumor is that Windows 7, confusingingly, will be internally Windows 6.1

Andy.
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Re: Windows 7 speedup

Post by Anil »

plattyaj wrote:
mathmoi wrote:
kgburcham wrote:Simply put, this is the seventh release of Windows, so therefore Windows 7 just makes sense.
A beta release is planned for early 2009.
Is it really the seventh realease of windows ?

1: windows 1.0
2: Windows 2.0
3: Windows 3.0
4: Windows 95
5: Windows 98
6: Windows Millenium
7: Windows XP
8: Windows Vista
9: Windows 7
Windows 7 is just the new marketing name. Each version of Windows had some internal version number. Windows 95-Millenium were 4.x, XP is 5.x, Vista is 6.x.

Rumor is that Windows 7, confusingingly, will be internally Windows 6.1

Andy.
You may be right.

For the exact version info, use "winver" command.

Start --> Run
Type: winver
Press Enter
Norm Pollock
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Re: Windows 7 speedup

Post by Norm Pollock »

mathmoi wrote:
kgburcham wrote:Simply put, this is the seventh release of Windows, so therefore Windows 7 just makes sense.
A beta release is planned for early 2009.
Is it really the seventh realease of windows ?

1: windows 1.0
2: Windows 2.0
3: Windows 3.0
4: Windows 95
5: Windows 98
6: Windows Millenium
7: Windows XP
8: Windows Vista
9: Windows 7
Just like the calendar. "September" is the 9th month but "sept" is the latin prefix for "7".
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Bo Persson
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Re: Windows 7 speedup

Post by Bo Persson »

kgburcham wrote:Seems maybe a speedup for chess programs, probably small.


Under the hood, Microsoft said it improved the speed of the system and cut the amount of memory it needs to run.
Windows 7 will ship in both client and server versions with the client versions available in both 32-bit and 64-bit editions.
Simply put, this is the seventh release of Windows, so therefore Windows 7 just makes sense.
A beta release is planned for early 2009.

Windows 7 Microsoft is intending to increase performance on systems with multiple cores. Currently software often cannot take full advantage of multiple cores due to the way in which the software is written and executed. The program will fail if it is not synchronised across all cores, this is why greater parallelism is required.
There will be a noticeable increase in system performance if the load created by executing programs is shared across multiple cores where available.

kgburcham
Sure, a new Windows version will be the greatest thing since sliced bread. Everything older just sucks!

What else is new?
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Re: Windows 7 speedup

Post by Vinvin »

Norm Pollock wrote:
mathmoi wrote:
kgburcham wrote:Simply put, this is the seventh release of Windows, so therefore Windows 7 just makes sense.
A beta release is planned for early 2009.
Is it really the seventh realease of windows ?

1: windows 1.0
2: Windows 2.0
3: Windows 3.0
4: Windows 95
5: Windows 98
6: Windows Millenium
7: Windows XP
8: Windows Vista
9: Windows 7
Just like the calendar. "September" is the 9th month but "sept" is the latin prefix for "7".
Octo = 8
Nov = 9
Dec = 10
There was a time when the year begun on march ...

Where's windows 2000 in this list ???
kgburcham
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Re: Windows 7 speedup

Post by kgburcham »

I agree Bo. I really like my windows xp pro 64.
I have dual boot with 2 hard drives. I have 32 bit windows xp pro on one hard drive and windows xp pro 64 on the other. I set the default system boot, 64 bit. So anytime I want to compare the 32 to the 64 running a chess program, I have that option. Also my video software is 32 bit so I use both. Works good for me. Very fast and I keep the operating system clean for speed. I did not purchase any version of Vista, yet. I might try Windows 7 to compare speed when it is released.

kgburcham