Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:52:53 09/10/01
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On September 10, 2001 at 01:03:35, pavel wrote: >I am certainly not one of those hardwrae or software gurus out there. > >SO, i guess someone out there might help me. > >my question , how can a 32 bit processor have more than 512mb of RAM? I am >asking this because My computer is an Intel Celeron 600mhz has 2 memory slot >each can hold up 256mb SDRAM. And I believe I have read somewhere or heard from >someone (cant remember), that a 32bit processor limitation is 512mb RAM. > >So how is it possible that some computer have more than 512mb RAM, is there an >external hardware included? > >thanks >pavs. > >ps, sorry for the off topic. 32 bit machines can directly address 4 gigabytes. Intel added a cute kludge to the first xeon to make this even larger. If your machine has two memory slots, then you can only use 2x whatever the largest memory module is. But other machines don't have this limit. IE my quad had 16 memory slots.
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