viability of 64-bit systems

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It has absolutely nothing to do with being (un)stable.
Have you already forgotten how it took them longer to get Flash on 64-bit platform than what it's taken Blizzard to develop D3? It wasn't the first and sure won't be the last "minor issue", and if something as trivial as that isn't supported at all, the sharpest among us could draw some conclusions. I'll check back in a couple of years, but everyone buying a 64-bit system for home use is just wasting money based on insufficient brain activity.
I'm not even gonna bother with the "runs stuff" argument. In case you weren't aware, operation systems also have other problems than just freeze-crashes where you lose all control.

TRUE OR FALSE?

Discuss.

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If you wish. The Operating System doesn't really matter, be it Linux, Mac or Windows, they're all mostly decently supported. Linux is probably the best supported platform for some implementations, but I wouldn't say you would have trouble using any of those platforms to learn and use CL on.

You'll want Emacs + SLIME + Paredit for editing and a good Lisp implementation like SBCL, ClozureCL, CLISP (for free ones), or AllegroCL and LispWorks(for commercial ones).
If you chose to go the path of SICP and Scheme, try DrScheme/PLT.