I don't believe that is true with the G5; only the G4.

-Matt

On May 12, 2004, at 3:45 PM, Dick Applebaum wrote:

> I found an answer at:
>
>  http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Performance/Conceptual/
>  ManagingMemory/Concepts/AboutMemory.html
>
>  The OS X limit is 4 Gig RAM per process.
>
>  Jobs is supposed to preview Tiger (the next OS X) at Apple's WDDC
> dev��
>  conference at the end of June -- Haven't heard any rumors -- moping
> for��
>  more RAM support & DB-based file system.
>
>  Dick
>
>  On May 12, 2004, at 11:24 AM, Ben Doom wrote:
>
>  > OS X and OS X Server support up to 8GB, so putting more in wouldn't
>  >��really help.
>  >
>  >��AFAIK, other than the 8GB limit, there's nothing inherent about OS
> X��
>  > (or
>  >��the BSD core for that matter) that would prevent a given app from��
>  > using
>  >��as much of that as it wanted.
>  >
>  >��Technically, you could run MS-SQL Server on the Mac, but since it��
>  > would
>  >��be running in Windows in an emulator, it really wouldn't do you any
>  >��good.��:-)
>  >
>  >��--Ben Doom
>  >
>  >��Matt Liotta wrote:
>  >
>  >��> You'd have to check with Apple on that. XServe G5s have 8 DIMM��
>  > slots,
>  >��> so physically it can have more than 8GB of RAM.
>  >��>
>  >��> -Matt
>  >��>
>  >��> On May 12, 2004, at 12:34 PM, Dick Applebaum wrote:
>  >��>
>  >��>��> Just out of curiosity --
>  >��>��>
>  >��>��>��The Mac XServe G% is 64 bit and can have 8 Gig RAM.
>  >��>��>
>  >��>��>��Is there anything in OS X that limits the RAM use?
>  >��>��>
>  >��>��>��Of course, you can't run SQL-Server on a MAc, but you can nun
>  >��>��>��Sybase_ASE, Oracle 9i. PostgreSQL, MySQL and others.
>  >��>��>
>  >��>��>��TIA
>  >��>��>
>  >��>��>��Dick
>  >
>
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