On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Tony B wrote:
The 4gb memory limit is just a Windows licensing issue though. Unless
Mac OS also has such licensing issues, this shouldn't be as big an
advantage.
Right. The 32-bits specified is the size of a virtual memory address.
Physical memory can actually be larger, though a particular process
(program) would still be limited to the 4GB address space. Linux (and
some server versions of Windows, not sure about OS X) can use PAE
addressing to use more than 4GB, even in "32-bit mode". I just read
an article on this yesterday:
http://www.geoffchappell.com/viewer.htm?doc=notes/windows/license/memory.htm
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Snyder, Mark - IdM
(IS)<mark.sny...@ngc.com> wrote:
A large advantage of 64-bit is getting past the 4B address limit.
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