Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 15:23:50 +1200 (NZST) From: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.3 and 6G RAM Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107211513500.22037-100000@vimfuego.saarinen.org> In-Reply-To: <200107210313.f6L3DVd03494@mass.dis.org>
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[Long cc: list trimmed] On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Mike Smith wrote: > Yes, but what is "fully 64-bit"? Are you talking about software? > Hardware? You're being very untechnical. Sorry, I meant using a 64-bit CPU with a matching 64-bit OS. > Er, because it's the only way to handle > 4GB of physical memory on an > IA32 system. True, that's one advantage ;-) > If by "fully 64-bit" you mean "64-bit physical and virtual addresses on > IA32", then you need to look at the "32" bit in "IA32" again. Heh. No, I didn't mean that. -- Regards, Juha To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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