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Re: respectful slightly dumb question about 64 bit computing.....



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On 10/29/06 16:55, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 01:22:49PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
[snip]
> As someone who is migrating from a 486 with 32 MB ram to an AMD Athlon
> with 1 GB ram, I'll be interested in this discussion.  In my own
> experience, anything over 16 MB is what Mozilla wastes as you use it.
> Any time I need fast or small, I go to Fortran 77.

1GB is well within 32-bit address space, and so thus isn't really
"large memory".

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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