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Re:Intel Explores Transition to 64-Bit-Only X86S Architecture by buran77 on Saturday May 20, 2023 @05:40PM (#36015862)
> a 32-bit OS can only address 3.2 GB of RAM

Is that true though? 32bit Windows 2003 Enterprise or Datacenter editions were perfectly capable of accessing 64GB or RAM [0]. Even so, that difference from the usual 4GB and 3.xGB was any kind of memory usage for integrated GPU or virtual address space mapping for different hardware.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/memory/memor...

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Re:Intel Explores Transition to 64-Bit-Only X86S Architecture by hydroreadsstuff on Saturday May 20, 2023 @05:51PM (#36015936)
It’s 4GB per address space / per process. In aggregate you can use more.
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Re:Intel Explores Transition to 64-Bit-Only X86S Architecture by 6510 on Saturday May 20, 2023 @05:56PM (#36015965)
I vaguely remember some software that put the swap on a ram drive.
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Re:Intel Explores Transition to 64-Bit-Only X86S Architecture by pmalynin on Saturday May 20, 2023 @05:52PM (#36015943)
Yea the 64 gig thing is from PAE I think.
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Re:Intel Explores Transition to 64-Bit-Only X86S Architecture by EuropeOverlords on Saturday May 20, 2023 @07:39PM (#36016613)
yet, processors had that, even before 32BIT 4GB issue was even issue in press XD
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Re:Intel Explores Transition to 64-Bit-Only X86S Architecture by EuropeOverlords on Saturday May 20, 2023 @07:38PM (#36016605)
FIRST year in college you learn about address translation. but this 4GB 32BIT myth is spread even between / by people who we are looking for benchmarks, deep technical insights etc. i hate that people are not computers sometimes, mixing humanities thinking with technical thinking is cancer. and we are tolerating it, LTT has milions of subscribers ( if it is not obvious why it is bad i feel bad for you ), anandtech is intentionally inserting total bull .. inaccuracies into their articles, .......

rule of money as a current totalitarian regime.

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