16GB? As in the _virtual_ address space of applications running on your OS is 
limited to 16GB? Or your machine can't host more than 16GB of _physical_ RAM? 
The latter seems more likely to me.

Please excuse typos; sent from a phone.

> On Jun 12, 2014, at 10:11 AM, "Stefano Lanzavecchia" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Limits for Windows: 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366778(v=vs.85).aspx
> Hardware can put stricter restrictions: the motherboard of my PC has a bus 
> with enough pins to address only 16G and that's it.
> --
> Stefano
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:programming-
>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of bill lam
>> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 4:02 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] vas was 4GB is ? in 64 bit
>> 
>> I don't think current cpu hardware or os can support full 2^64 address space.
>> 
>> Probably in the range of 2^48
>> 
>>> On 12.06.2014, at 21:05, Björn Helgason <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> A process has a 4GB virtual address space (VAS); each address from 0
>>> to 2^32 can have a byte value.
>>> 
>>> Is this 2^64 in 64 bit?
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