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From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>,
	craig <craiglei@pasia.com.cn>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: How to visit physical memory above 4G?
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Oh ok, I knew that regular PIII's only had 32 bits... but it's still
obviously a pain in the butt to use above 4GB.

Ken

On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:

> 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
> --
> Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release:
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> 
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