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* _includes/install.html(Windows): Changes discussed with jwe.
author Kai T. Ohlhus <k.ohlhus@gmail.com>
date Wed, 15 Aug 2018 08:41:19 +0200
parents 0eb919e81f47
children d8eb48d642d1
files _includes/install.html
diffstat 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/_includes/install.html	Tue Aug 14 10:53:00 2018 +0200
+++ b/_includes/install.html	Wed Aug 15 08:41:19 2018 +0200
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
       <ul>
         <li>
           <p>
-            Win64 (recommended)
+            Windows-64 (recommended)
             <ul>
               <li>
                 <a href="https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/windows/octave-4.4.1-w64-installer.exe">octave-4.4.1-w64-installer.exe</a>
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
         </li>
         <li>
           <p>
-            Win32 (old computers)
+            Windows-32 (old computers)
             <ul>
               <li>
                 <a href="https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/windows/octave-4.4.1-w32-installer.exe">octave-4.4.1-w32-installer.exe</a>
@@ -97,7 +97,14 @@
         </li>
         <li>
           <p>
-            Win64 (experimental 64-bit for large Data)
+            Windows-64 (64-bit linear algebra for large data)<br>
+            <small>
+              Unless your computer has more than ~32GB of memory
+              <strong>and</strong> you need to solve linear algebra problems
+              with arrays containing more than ~2 billion elements, this
+              version will offer no advantage over the recommended Windows-64
+              version above.
+            </small>
             <ul>
               <li>
                 <a href="https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/windows/octave-4.4.1-w64-64-installer.exe">octave-4.4.1-w64-64-installer.exe</a>