Re: How much RAM can debian support?
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 06:49:04PM -0700, David Fox wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
>
> > A $600 full length ISA card and a cable to the 8088 socket quadrupled my
> > system performance in about 15 minutes. Best upgrade I ever made.
>
> My first computer was in the early 80s and it had 16K of RAM (TRS 80).
>
> I think 64 bit debian will likely support more ram than any systems
> integrator will be able to put in a box. Of course, don't come and
> quote me on that in 2013 sometime :). I've known people to tell me
> that they'd never need more than a 20 meg HD, too :).
>
> 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. :)
You don't. It seems others do:
http://redmondmag.com/articles/2009/10/08/rumor-windows-8-will-be-128-bit.aspx
The PR departments has strange hardware requirements.
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