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Subject: Re: 2 GB virtual memory limit in Windows

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 11:27:42 08/30/05

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On August 30, 2005 at 14:05:02, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>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.

It was?
What was it called then?



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