From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 20 20:23:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org (saarinen.org [203.79.82.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A6C637B405; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 20:23:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from juha@saarinen.org) Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org ([192.168.1.1]) by vimfuego.saarinen.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hack)) id 15NnMs-0005lY-00; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 15:23:50 +1200 Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 15:23:50 +1200 (NZST) From: Juha Saarinen To: Mike Smith Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.3 and 6G RAM In-Reply-To: <200107210313.f6L3DVd03494@mass.dis.org> Message-ID: X-S: Always MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Long cc: list trimmed] On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Mike Smith wrote: > Yes, but what is "fully 64-bit"? Are you talking about software? > Hardware? You're being very untechnical. Sorry, I meant using a 64-bit CPU with a matching 64-bit OS. > Er, because it's the only way to handle > 4GB of physical memory on an > IA32 system. True, that's one advantage ;-) > If by "fully 64-bit" you mean "64-bit physical and virtual addresses on > IA32", then you need to look at the "32" bit in "IA32" again. Heh. No, I didn't mean that. -- Regards, Juha To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message