Check footnotes 2 & 3:

http://www.hp.com/workstations/ia32/index.html

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begin <397l81-beb.ln1@news.lumbercartel.com>,
"D. C. Sessions" <dcs@lumbercartel.com> writes
2 Microsoft Window supports 4GB; greater than 4GB available on
Linux only.

3 Microsoft Windows supports 4GB; maximum configurable memory is
12GB; up to 8GB configurations are supported on Linux only.

Will Windows ever catch up?

rgc@swissonline.ch (Roy Culley) wrote in news:bcbl81-
0ms.ln1@gentoo.linux.src:

Isn't the current 32-Bit architecture limited to approximately 4GB
anyway? Then again, I noticed that the systems on that site that
claim 8 and 12GB capability are dual-processor, so that might have
something to do with surpassing the 4GB barrier when running Linux.

Still, I thought someone very prominent in the software industry once
emphatically claimed that no one would ever need more than 640K of
RAM anyway.

Roy Culley wrote:

Who cares. When will HP write a kernel patch that lets the Linux Kernel use
all that 12GB of RAM? :-P

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Scarletdown wrote:

No. You can address up to 64GB. And linux supports it.


Yes. That was for some rather badly designed OS-simulator, though
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begin <%hTtb.406435$pl3.99150@pd7tw3no>,
alt <spamtrap@gwsn.com> writes:
Keep up there at the back:

If more than 4 Gigabytes is used then answer "64GB" here. This
selection turns Intel PAE (Physical Address Extension) mode on.
PAE implements 3-level paging on IA32 processors. PAE is fully
supported by Linux, PAE mode is implemented on all recent Intel
processors (Pentium Pro and better). NOTE: If you say "64GB" here,
then the kernel will not boot on CPUs that don't support PAE!

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 22:57:43 -0000, Scarletdown
<SecretaryBird@MYTAILFEATHERSSoftHome.net> wrote:

It supports 4GB of address space per process. There can be more than
4GB of physical RAM in the computer on ia32, but no single process can
access more than 4GB of that (actually 3GB usable, the kernel mapping
takes 1 GB).

Of course, if you go to an UltraSPARC or Alpha or Opteron, then you get
a 64-bit address space all around...


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Roy Culley wrote:

yikes! my bad :-P

I've never used a machine with more than a Gig, and I've never paid
attention to that. Oops. :-\

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Roy Culley threw some tea leaves on the floor
and this is what they wrote:

Unlikely given their atrocious performance so far.

In the virus and worm stakes, they are the clear leader however.

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Somewhere around the time of 11/16/2003 14:57, the world stopped and
listened as Scarletdown contributed this to humanity:


The only way that I could see someone needing more that 4GB RAM is if
they are running a full server farm.


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Remove nospam, invalid, and 0123456789 to reply.

Daniel Rudy spake:

This could be your very own Bill Gates "no one will ever need more than
640K" moment. :-)


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Big datasets. Many mathematical algorithms, benefit as much from
increased memory, as they do, from increased processor speed.


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In <Yq_tb.24310$eY3.19385@newssvr25.news.prodigy.com> , Daniel Rudy wrote:
Per task. Multiple tasks let the total increase, since the
physical address can be greater than the virtual address.

We have quite a few steps in IC design that have to be done on
64-bit hardware because the data sets are larger than 4 GB.

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+--------------- D. C. Sessions <dcs@lumbercartel.com> ----------+

The Onion Man wrote:

<loads .45 and points it at my own head>
I really hate to say this, but I believe that is a misquote. I think
Bill Gates said "640K should be enough for anyone" and the context was at
the time he said it, not a "640K is enough for all time" kind of statement.

Even so, I'm sure that 640K wasn't enough for everyone, just enough for
many if not most users at that time which was the early 1980's.

Here's a webpage, which although I have no knowledge of its accuracy,
attempts to clarify Bill's infamous comment.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?A23016096

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a suitable penance to serve for defending
Bill Gates here in cola.
<BLAM!>

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Scarletdown <SecretaryBird@mytailfeatherssofthome.net> wrote:
No, cos modern intel chips have "PAE" which can theoretically go up to
....what is it? 36 bit addressing using pages?

Tony Sivori spake:

OK so we're not allowed to misquote on COLA, now?

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The Onion Man wrote:
Only the Microsoft shills get to do that. The Linux advocates must retain
the moral high ground.

Never tried that, but wrap around safety goggles work very well for me.

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Datagram from Bob Hauck incoming on netlink socket
<slrnbrg3kh.j7p.postmaster@cardinal.haucks.org>. Dumping datagram.
There is patch that at cost of slowdown in system calls will give 4GB
kernel space to map pages and 4GB address space for each process. Also,
in X86-64, 32-bit processes get full 4GB of address space.

-Ilari
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