From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 2 10:30:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from perninha.conectiva.com.br (perninha.conectiva.com.br [200.250.58.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9E3437B405 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 10:30:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from riel@conectiva.com.br) Received: from burns.conectiva (burns.conectiva [10.0.0.4]) by perninha.conectiva.com.br (Postfix) with SMTP id 0B2FF38D17 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 14:30:12 -0300 (EST) Received: (qmail 4367 invoked by uid 0); 2 Aug 2001 17:29:16 -0000 Received: from duckman.distro.conectiva (HELO duckman.conectiva.com.br) (root@10.0.17.2) by burns.conectiva with SMTP; 2 Aug 2001 17:29:16 -0000 Received: from localhost (riel@localhost) by duckman.conectiva.com.br (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f72HUB401729; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 14:30:11 -0300 X-Authentication-Warning: duckman.distro.conectiva: riel owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 14:30:11 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: To: Charles Randall Cc: "'tlambert2@mindspring.com'" , craig , Subject: RE: How to visit physical memory above 4G? In-Reply-To: <5FE9B713CCCDD311A03400508B8B30130828F234@bdr-xcln.corp.matchlogic.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Charles Randall wrote: > From: Terry Lambert [mailto:tlambert2@mindspring.com] > >I have yet to see one person using it for anything. So far, > >it is nothing more than marketing fodder: I haven't seen one > >motherboard capable of more than 4G worth of SIMMs. > > The Dell PowerEdge 6450 supports 8 GB of RAM. > > http://www.dell.com/us/en/biz/products/model_pedge_pedge_6400.htm It's all a trick, they don't really exist. After all, why would people ever shell out the money for one of these useless beasts that won't be running until ia64 has gotten cheaper than these machines ? Rik -- Executive summary of a recent Microsoft press release: "we are concerned about the GNU General Public License (GPL)" http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message