Pat Farrell;280172 Wrote: > > 64 is needed for more than 4gb of memory, since 32 bits is 4gb > unsigned. > And realistically, most of the above 3GB memory is mapped to hardware, > > video cards, buffers for assorted stuff, so its not really useful
Except for the pure evil that is PAE. Thankfully the number of machines that need/use PAE are few and far between. :) I've had to mess with kernel stuff before to allow better use of memory on > 3G 32bit machines.. it's not fun. I'm glad AMD won the 64 bit architecture war.. Itanium is horrid stuff, I used to admin some. -- SuperQ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44810 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
