On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:48:25PM -0500, Derek Juba wrote:
> If you want > 4GB of RAM then 64-bit is a must, but
> otherwise, I'm also not really sure what the advantages are.

Is this even true anymore?  I thought some chips (Xeons?) could magically
hack around this.  I know it makes no sense that a 32bit machine could
address more then 2^32=4GB of ram, but apparently they had special
instructions or memory windows or something.  I think they were still
limited to 4GB per process or something.


- Rob
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