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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 19 2011 - 16:57:52 CST

Hi,
  I'm working on it, but don't have it all up and running yet.
If I don't get it done in time for this next release, I may make an
"interim" VMD release just for Windows 64-bit once I get the kinks
completely worked out.

Cheers,
  John

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:51:45PM +0100, Mirco Wahab wrote:
> Dear VMD developers,
>
> I noticed that vmd crashes on loading large
> trajectories after allocating between 3-4GB
> RAM.
>
> I suspect this comes from the memory limit
> imposed by the 32-bit architecture (for which
> the available Windows-builds are created).
>
> After looking through the archives, I found this
> response from Feb 2011:
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/17267.html
>
> Will there be a Windows-x64 build within
> the next release? There are 8.4 and 8.5 x64
> Tcl builds available. Will these be suiteable
> für vmd? (e.g.: http://www.activestate.com/activetcl/downloads)
>
> Thanks & regards
>
> ^. 

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