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Re:Program Files (x86) and SysWOW64 folders explained by Szpadel on Thursday November 04, 2021 @04:05PM (#29111911)
> 64-bit computer with a 64-bit Windows can handle so much RAM memory as 192 GB!

Can anyone explain from where this number comes from?

on 32bits you can address 4GiB, but using 64bits you are able to address 16EiB 38bits is enough to address 256GiB so 192GiB doesn't look like any technical limitation

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Re:Program Files (x86) and SysWOW64 folders explained by zamadatix on Thursday November 04, 2021 @06:07PM (#29113088)
Just licensing from what I understand, historically if you patched the licensing limitations higher amounts of RAM always worked fine.
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Re:Program Files (x86) and SysWOW64 folders explained by LocalH on Friday November 05, 2021 @09:41AM (#29119067)
Honestly, the idea of licensing influencing how much of your hardware you can actually use seems like an ass-backwards concept to me.
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