Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 22:02:25 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Chuck Youse <cyouse@paradox.nexuslabs.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Limitations in FreeBSD Message-ID: <199910290502.WAA03970@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 28 Oct 1999 23:24:20 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910282319290.4247-100000@paradox.nexuslabs.com>
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> > That's correct; it's why the ia32 architecture has a '32' in its name= =2E > = > I don't believe that's true. I don't have any hard evidence within eas= y > reach, but with the introduction of the Pentium, the address space was > increased. A user process, of course, can only have 4G of addressible > space (32-bit addresses) but the OS can map pages of the 4G space into = a > larger area. > = > Something to do with 4MB pages instead of 4K pages. = > = > Again, I could be wrong on this one. Think about it for a second. How big is a pointer? -- = \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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