[racket] preference: 32-bit or 64-bit racket?

From: Ben Goetter (goetter at mazama.net)
Date: Wed Mar 9 19:07:36 EST 2011

Please keep political and religious tirades off of this alias.  Thank you.

On 3/9/2011 3:47 PM, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
> Forgive me, but this could stand to be mentioned at least once a year, 
> as a reminder... PC hardware tends to become more useful for most 
> technical work if one erases Windows and installs GNU/Linux.
>
> (Nowadays, with GNU/Linux being the technical and server platform, and 
> most things being doable in a Web browser or on a phone, Windows is 
> mostly useful for two purposes: as a program loader for FPS video 
> games, and for secretaries who still like to email around .doc files 
> that only work with the latest version of MS Word.)
>
>
> Stephen Chang wrote at 03/09/2011 06:18 PM:
>> You can build on Windows with VC Express. You just cant use the 
>> build.bat script bc there's no devenv. If you use the vcbuild command 
>> line tool that comes with VC express, you get some errors.
>



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