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From: "Erin" <kahn@deadbbs.com>
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Subject: RE: Max Physical Memory 
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 15:37:08 -0700
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>    The maximum that FreeBSD supports now and in the medium 
> term future on the
> x86 platform is 4GB. Going beyond that requires majors 
> changes to device drives and the VM system.

Does the 32bit architecture partially responsible for the
4GB limit? If not, when do you forcast the changes to hit
the FreeBSD OS?

Thanks,


Erin


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