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Subject: Re: 2 GB virtual memory limit in Windows

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 11:05:02 08/30/05

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On August 30, 2005 at 13:53:27, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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.

64-bit Windows were released several years ago.

Thanks,
Eugene

>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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