Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:00:00 -0700
From: bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us (Bob Friesenhahn)
Subject: Re: OT: large memory allocation in Windows
Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0208221250191.8371-100000@scooby.simplesystems.org>

Microsoft Windows used to support processors (Alpha and MIPS) which
were capable of 64-bit addressing, but then they discontinued
supporting anything but Intel X86.

The OS doesn't need to consume 1/2 of the address space.  Intel
processors can support more than 4GB of memory, programs just can't
address more than 4GB of memory.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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