On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Matt wrote:

> any chance going more than 4G?

Not yet. (on x86)

The hardware changes to do > 32 bit physical addresses 
include a redefinition of how page tables and page directories are layed
out and to be able to use it we'd have to define
and turn on code for that differnt mode. iIt has not yet been written.
It wouldn't be hard to make a system that ONLY ran in that mode
but one that can run on new systems withthat mode and also run on old
486 machines is much harder.


Julian





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