On Wed, 3 May 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> When AMD releases their IA32 processors with 64 bit extensions, perhaps
> that will support more than 4GB per process too.
>
> You can of course _access_ much more than that per process. And the
> total RAM shared between all processes is not subject to the 4GB
> limitation. On Pentium Pros you can use 64GB total RAM.
Can't you get 4TB on i386's? using page gran. That's what it says in 'the
indespensable PC hardware book'.
Cheers,
Mark Zealey
mark@itsolve.co.uk
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