Hey, I can’t believe we are out of address space again. I lived that way too long ago going from 8 bit (remember when 128KB was an unbelievable amount of money) to 16 bit (remember when 8MB was just ridiculous) to 32 bit (remember when 1GB was a huge amount).
So now those simple decisions. In [...]
Windows 32 bit address limits
September 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
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Windows machines can’t use more than 3GB of real memory
September 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Who would have ever thought we’d run into the 32-bit limitation. The long and short is that with all versions of Windows, 750MB at the top of memory is useless because it is used for I/O and if you have a 1GB video card, that is memory mapped, so that means you can use at [...]
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