Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 04:08:50 09/11/01
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On September 10, 2001 at 09:52:53, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. Do you use them all? José.
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