[Pc_Support] Vista hardware requirements - MS speaker full of it?

[Damien McKenna]

http://www.apcstart.com/teched/pivot/entry.php?id=6

"If you move from 32 to 64 bit, you basically need to at least double
your memory. 2 gigs in 64 bit is the equivalent of a gig of RAM on a
32bit machine. That's because you're dealing with chunks that are twice
the size..."

My take on this is that the extra bloating is due to code inefficiency
and not a 32bit vs 64bit thing.  Am I correct?  It just sounds strange.
Does Linux have the same problem, its been 64bit-clean for, what, ten
years?

His comment on gfx card requirements pretty much follows BS's comments
on Microsoft's graphics subsystem to a T.  Basically because their code
/ subsystems are so bad it'll take a seriously high end system to do the
graphical touches compared to the efficient systems in OSX and OSS (GLX,
Looking Glass, etc) graphical environments which get much more results
from much less resources.  But the general public is used to having to
upgrade their systems so won't think twice about it, meanwhile the PC
manufacturers are kept happy because there's yet another reason to push
people to upgrade.

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