Hi John, On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 03:44:15PM +0100, John Arbash Meinel wrote: > PAE was first added in Pentium Pro in 1995. So your servers have to > be ~16 years old to not support it. > > So yes "a decade old" is still new enough, 2 decades old is not. > Looking here: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension > > I'm trying to correlate that with: > http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/quickrefyr.htm > > And it looks like there is a 400MHz processor introduced around > 1999. So you're still looking at 1 decade being new enough, but > slightly more than that not.
I think some non-Intel CPUs made in the last 10 years would be affected. AMD Geode and VIA C3 come to mind. I think that the replacements for these products do support PAE. Unfortunately, I'm short on both details and time. Maybe someone else can provide more information. Thanks, Forest -- Forest Bond http://www.alittletooquiet.net http://www.rapidrollout.com
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