Re: using more than 2 GB as a ram disk

Tigger (tigger@lagwagon.net)
Thu, 04 Feb 1999 09:38:02 -0800


In message <99Feb2.100030gmt.66323@gateway.ukaea.org.uk>, Neil Conway writes:
>H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>
>> > H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> > > Call it ridiculous. i386 et al only has 32 bits of linear address
>> > > space. It can't work.
>>
>
>OK, so *that's* how you do it (oops on the name). But you said it
>"can't work" - I can't reconcile that with the facts. Perhaps you
>didn't quite mean "can't work" ??

Or as the head of software engineering where I work says. "This is
software. Sure we can get it to work. So you want the product sometime
around the year 4020."

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