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Re: How much RAM can debian support?



David Fox wrote:
> Personally, I don't see a need to go 128 bit on a main cpu unless you
> have a desire to count and enumerate every elementary particle in the
> known universe, without a) running out of RAM, or b) spilling the
> content into a multiregister add/adc pair. :)
>   

Well, with 128 bits one avoids the year 4,292,277,026,596 problem[0].
It's nice to plan ahead, you know.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_bug



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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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