On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 15:03 +0100, Paul Brook wrote: > On Wednesday 08 September 2004 14:45, Ron Johnson wrote: > > In fact, it seems to me that *any* 32 bit processor (SPARC, HPPA, > > Power) that wants to be able to use more than 4GB of total RAM > > would have to use such a segmentation scheme. > > Err, all of the above have 64-bit variants. Yessss, but they didn't *start* with 64 bit variants. > I don't know if the > 32-bit variants support more than 4GB ram, but I doubt it. Oh come on. You think the SPARC32s, Powers & PA-RISCs that ran big Solaris, AIX and HP-UX SMP boxen in big shops *never* had more than 4GB of RAM? I find it supremely hard to believe that Intel is the only company to have a 32 bit chip that can address more than 4GB of RAM. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B "Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come." Carl Sandburg Oh, come on. Sure they will. That's what testosterone is for...
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