Re: debian-user] Re: AMD vs Intel and the Debian kernel
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> wrote:
> But that's approximately 2**34 gigabytes, and the lowest
> price-per-gigabyte that I can find for RAM chips is about $20. So to
> max out a 64-bit memory space, you would need to spend around
>
> $343,597,383,680
And they said 640K was good enough for anyone. :)
But the AMD64 doesn't have 64 address lines, so that's a moot point. I
think the address imits on it are somewhere around 2**40.
Still, that's a lot of RAM.
> Daniel
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