The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Richard Russell wrote:
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3. 32-bit applications run under the WoW64 emulation layer:
compatibility is good but not 100% and a few programs may not run properly.
On balance I generally recommend the 32-bit version, but YMMV.
Richard.
http://www.rtrussell.co.uk/

compare and contrast with Linux/Mac OSX where "on balance I generally
recommend the 32-bit version" became the reverse about three years ago.

And compare WoW64 emulation *may* work with WINE does work, BootCamp does
work, Parallels does work and when Apple changed to 64 bit the customers
didn't notice. Not only that but when the changed processor family (twice)
old apps written for a different processor continued to work.