David writes: > All very true, but NT/2k/XP give the user > a single, flat 2GB address space, which is > getting a bit cramped in this day and age > of 4000dpi MF scanners.
The 32-bit hardware severely limits addressing beyond a 4 GB boundary. If you want to handle more than 4 GB cleanly, you'll have to go to a 64-bit architecture (which is coming, but isn't quite here yet). > Hmm. I wonder if that can be gotten around > by having a thread object with it's own > address space for each image. The big problem is having a convenient way to address RAM directly. 32 bits = 4 GB. Very much like the problem with MS-DOS and 16-bit addressing, which required that everything be chopped up into 64K chunks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
