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Subject: Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?
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On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote:

> Also, the PIII CAN'T natively support more than 4GB of ram. If a
> particular PIII motherboard supports this, then it's using some
> kind of wierd chipset that allows this to happen. 4GB is the
> limit with a 32 bit chip I believe; and the PIII is a 32-bit
> chip.

The Xeon series have 32 bits of virtual address space
and 36 bits of physical address space.

Rik
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