Re: st: is Stata 11 32 bit certified / supported / working on windows 7 64 bit?

[Alan Riley <ariley@stata.com>]

Roland Andersson <rolandersson@gmail.com> asked some followup questions
about running Stata for 64-bit Windows:
> Is there no benefit at all of using 32-bit Stata on 64-bit windows?
> Will I have access to the same amount of memory? Or will it be less?
> Speed?

There is no performance or memory reason to run 32-bit Stata on
64-bit Windows.  If you have 64-bit Windows, I would always
recommend running 64-bit Stata.


In my earlier posting I wrote,
> > Stata 11 licenses are operating system independent.  That is, if
> > you have a Stata 11 license, it will allow you to install Stata
> > for 32-bit Windows, Stata for 64-bit Windows, Stata for Mac OS X,
> > Stata for Linux (32-bit or 64-bit), and so on.

and Roland asked in response,
> Does this mean that I can obtain the 64-bit version with no additional cost?

If Roland already owns Stata 11, he already has the 64-bit version
of Stata 11 for Windows.  The Stata installation DVD includes versions
of Stata for all supported operating systems, including those I listed
above.  When installing on a 64-bit Windows system, the instalation
program will offer the choice of installing 64-bit executables or
32-bit executables.

The only reason someone might want to install 32-bit Stata on 64-bit
Windows is if the 64-bit machine is a file server and 32-bit machines
will be accessing the Stata installation across network mounts.


Alan
ariley@stata.com

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