Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 19:13:28 +0200 (CEST) From: wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org (Wolfgang Zenker) To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.3 and 6G RAM Message-ID: <m15Mut6-003pYeC@lyxys.ka.sub.org> In-Reply-To: <20010718185206.A94946@student.uu.se>
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> On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:23:18AM -0700, Tom wrote: > > [..] > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Jonathan Belson wrote: > > [..] > > I believe the Xeon is the only x86 processor that can address more than > > 4GB. > Nope. I just checked the online manuals at www.intel.com and all > Intel's x86 CPUs since Pentium Pro can do this. (This includes Pentium > Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4 and the Xeon versions of them.) Actually Intel invented two different methods of using more than 4 GB of physical memory: PSE36 (introduced with the Pentium Pro) and PAE (introduced with Pentium II). Apparently all CPUs supporting PAE also support PSE36. Wolfgang To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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