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Subject: Re: 2 GB virtual memory limit in Windows

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 10:53:27 08/30/05

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On August 30, 2005 at 05:46:14, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On August 29, 2005 at 23:29:30, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>
>>On August 29, 2005 at 23:12:24, Lance Perkins wrote:
>>
>>>On August 29, 2005 at 19:18:32, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 29, 2005 at 16:13:58, Marc Bourzutschky wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>What are the options to be able to access more than 2 GB of memory in XP Pro?
>>>>>Does the /3G boot option work in XP Pro, and if so, are special tweaks needed by
>>>>>applications?  Are there other options?  I'm trying to have more memory
>>>>>available for myself of the 4 GB I have installed on my machine...
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks,
>>>>>Marc
>>>>
>>>>Perhaps install linux, has more advantages with respect to memory.
>>>>Windows i cannot recommend for software that wants to use more than 480MB ram.
>>>>
>>>>Vincent
>>>
>>>I'm not sure where you got that 480MB limit.
>
>Older Windows versions would fail to malloc over 256M.

Soon 64 bit Windows will be released, which will make these discussions sound
pretty funny.

Of course, 64 bit Linux has been out for a long, long time.

And I have done 64 bit stuff for years and years on old UNIX and OpenVMS
platforms.



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