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Old July 15th 13, 01:15 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Norvin Gordon
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OK, my age is showing, how do I know if my system is 32 or 64 bit?
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Old July 15th 13, 01:56 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Tim Slattery
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Norvin Gordon wrote:

OK, my age is showing, how do I know if my system is 32 or 64 bit?


Find "My Computer", right-click it and select Properties. If it's a
64-bit system it will say so on that page. If you can't find any
mention, then it's a 32-bit system.

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Old July 15th 13, 02:12 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Norvin Gordon
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Tim Slattery wrote:
Norvin Gordon wrote:

OK, my age is showing, how do I know if my system is 32 or 64 bit?


Find "My Computer", right-click it and select Properties. If it's a
64-bit system it will say so on that page. If you can't find any
mention, then it's a 32-bit system.

Thanks, have to buy a new printer and some will only work with 64 bit.
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Old July 15th 13, 02:16 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
David H. Lipman
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From: "Norvin Gordon"

Tim Slattery wrote:
Norvin Gordon wrote:

OK, my age is showing, how do I know if my system is 32 or 64 bit?


Find "My Computer", right-click it and select Properties. If it's a
64-bit system it will say so on that page. If you can't find any
mention, then it's a 32-bit system.

Thanks, have to buy a new printer and some will only work with 64 bit.


Any new printers that are COTS will support both Win32 and Win64.

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Old July 15th 13, 06:18 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Ken Blake, MVP[_4_]
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On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 08:12:15 -0500, Norvin Gordon
wrote:

Tim Slattery wrote:
Norvin Gordon wrote:

OK, my age is showing, how do I know if my system is 32 or 64 bit?


Find "My Computer", right-click it and select Properties. If it's a
64-bit system it will say so on that page. If you can't find any
mention, then it's a 32-bit system.

Thanks, have to buy a new printer and some will only work with 64 bit.



Are you sure about that? I've never heard of a printer that will only
work with 64-bit Windows.

You may find some printers that only have drivers for *32-bit*
Windows, but not the other way around.


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Old July 15th 13, 06:24 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul in Houston TX
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Norvin Gordon wrote:
Tim Slattery wrote:
Norvin Gordon wrote:

OK, my age is showing, how do I know if my system is 32 or 64 bit?


Find "My Computer", right-click it and select Properties. If it's a
64-bit system it will say so on that page. If you can't find any
mention, then it's a 32-bit system.


Thanks, have to buy a new printer and some will only work with 64 bit.


Adding to other's comments, I have never heard of that either.
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Old July 15th 13, 07:37 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
JJ[_10_]
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On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 09:16:26 -0400, David H. Lipman wrote:
Any new printers that are COTS will support both Win32 and Win64.


What's "COTS" ?
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Old July 15th 13, 09:01 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Tim Slattery
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JJ wrote:

On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 09:16:26 -0400, David H. Lipman wrote:
Any new printers that are COTS will support both Win32 and Win64.


What's "COTS" ?


Commercial Off The Shelf

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Old July 15th 13, 09:36 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Ken Blake, MVP[_4_]
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On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:01:51 -0400, Tim Slattery
wrote:

JJ wrote:

On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 09:16:26 -0400, David H. Lipman wrote:
Any new printers that are COTS will support both Win32 and Win64.


What's "COTS" ?


Commercial Off The Shelf



I thought I knew all common abbreviations (OK, I'm exaggerating g),
but that's a new one to me.

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Old July 16th 13, 12:12 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
David H. Lipman
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From: "Ken Blake, MVP"

On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:01:51 -0400, Tim Slattery
wrote:

JJ wrote:

On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 09:16:26 -0400, David H. Lipman wrote:
Any new printers that are COTS will support both Win32 and Win64.

What's "COTS" ?


Commercial Off The Shelf


I thought I knew all common abbreviations (OK, I'm exaggerating g),
but that's a new one to me.


Here's another closely related - GOTS.

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Old July 16th 13, 01:35 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Ken Blake, MVP[_4_]
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On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 19:12:55 -0400, "David H. Lipman"
wrote:

From: "Ken Blake, MVP"

On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:01:51 -0400, Tim Slattery
wrote:

JJ wrote:

On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 09:16:26 -0400, David H. Lipman wrote:
Any new printers that are COTS will support both Win32 and Win64.

What's "COTS" ?

Commercial Off The Shelf


I thought I knew all common abbreviations (OK, I'm exaggerating g),
but that's a new one to me.


Here's another closely related - GOTS.



Another one I had never seen before! I just looked it up; I assume you
mean Government off-the-shelf (I guessed what OTS stood for, but drew
a blank on the G g).



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Old July 16th 13, 02:21 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
David H. Lipman
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From: "Ken Blake, MVP"

On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 19:12:55 -0400, "David H. Lipman"
wrote:

From: "Ken Blake, MVP"

On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:01:51 -0400, Tim Slattery
wrote:

JJ wrote:

On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 09:16:26 -0400, David H. Lipman wrote:
Any new printers that are COTS will support both Win32 and Win64.

What's "COTS" ?

Commercial Off The Shelf

I thought I knew all common abbreviations (OK, I'm exaggerating g),
but that's a new one to me.


Here's another closely related - GOTS.


Another one I had never seen before! I just looked it up; I assume you
mean Government off-the-shelf (I guessed what OTS stood for, but drew
a blank on the G g).


Yes. Government Off the Shelf.

Often discussed, either separately or grouped together as COTS/GOTS.

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Dave
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http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
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Old July 16th 13, 03:36 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Ken Blake, MVP[_4_]
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On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 21:21:01 -0400, "David H. Lipman"
wrote:

From: "Ken Blake, MVP"

On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 19:12:55 -0400, "David H. Lipman"
wrote:

From: "Ken Blake, MVP"

On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:01:51 -0400, Tim Slattery
wrote:

JJ wrote:

On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 09:16:26 -0400, David H. Lipman wrote:
Any new printers that are COTS will support both Win32 and Win64.

What's "COTS" ?

Commercial Off The Shelf

I thought I knew all common abbreviations (OK, I'm exaggerating g),
but that's a new one to me.

Here's another closely related - GOTS.


Another one I had never seen before! I just looked it up; I assume you
mean Government off-the-shelf (I guessed what OTS stood for, but drew
a blank on the G g).


Yes. Government Off the Shelf.

Often discussed, either separately or grouped together as COTS/GOTS.



Thanks for the info. New to me, as I said.

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Old July 16th 13, 05:00 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
JJ[_10_]
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On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 21:21:01 -0400, David H. Lipman wrote:
Yes. Government Off the Shelf.


Any example?

Often discussed, either separately or grouped together as COTS/GOTS.


Bussiness or politic discussions?
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Old July 16th 13, 12:12 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
David H. Lipman
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From: "JJ"

On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 21:21:01 -0400, David H. Lipman wrote:
Yes. Government Off the Shelf.


Any example?

Often discussed, either separately or grouped together as COTS/GOTS.


Bussiness or politic discussions?


Business, government and defense industry discussions on hardware and software
acquisitions.


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